Samuel Daniel, Delia

Miles Layram (University of York)

Ed. by J A Roe, University of York
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1592

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

Resources

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) was part of the extraordinary group of late-Elizabethan sonneteers which included Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), Edmund Spenser (1552-99), Michael Drayton (1563-1631), and William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The collections they produced during the last two decades of the sixteenth century constitute a major peak in the history of English lyric verse.

The standard elements of content within these collections – in particular, the adoring and often dejected persona of the speaker, and the wondrous but usually unattainable recipient of his affections – can be traced back to the mediæval troubadour tradition, and to the Roman poets Tibullus (some of whose poems were addressed to a “Delia”), Catullus, …

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Citation: Layram, Miles . "Delia". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 September 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5668, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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