The Samuel Daniel Page

( ?1563 - 1619 )

Major Works
Delia, Containing Certain Sonnets. With the Complaint of Rosamond ( 1592 ). On Line
The Civile Wars ( 1595 - 1609 until eight books were published of this unfinished verse chronicle )
Poeticall Essayes ( 1599 ).
Panegyrick to the King ( 1603 ). Included "A Defence of Ryme" On Line
The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses ( 1604 ).
Certaine Small Poems, with the Tragedie of Philotas ( 1605; 1611, included "Ulysses and the Syren" ).
The Historie of England ( 1612, part i; complete by perhaps 1618 ). The Collection of the Historie of England was dated 1626.
Hymens Triumph ( 1615 ).
Whole Works in Poetrie ( 1623 ).
Complete Works. Edited by A. B. Grosart. Five volumes, of which three are verse ( 1885 ) and two are prose ( 1896 ). This edition is marked for private circulation only, and only 100 sets were printed, one per-cent of which are in the Bailey collection. A reprint was made in 1965(?)
G. Gregory Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays. Two Volumes. Oxford, 1904. Volume II contains both Daniel's "Defence" and Thomas Campion's earlier "Observations" to which Daniel's work was a response.
Poems and A Defence of Ryme. Edited by A. C. Sprague. Harvard, 1930; Chicago, 1965.
Geoffrey A. Hillier and Peter L. Groves have edited Samuel Daniel: Selected Poetry and A Defense of Rhyme (Pegasus, 1998). For more information on this important work, click HERE.
Three Poems by Daniel from Bartleby.

About Daniel
Cecil Seronsy, Samuel Daniel. Twayne, 1967.
Samuel Daniel. At the Luminarium.

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