Introduction: visions of Britain

• Published in: The Seventeenth century Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 377 - 391
• Main Authors: Cattell, Daniel, Schwyzer, Philip
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Routledge 08.08.2018; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: 17th century; chorography; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Historical text analysis; Michael Drayton; nation and region; Picts; Poetry; Poly-Olbion; United Kingdom > UK; England; Wales

This introductory essay situates Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), Michael Drayton's vast chorographical and historical poem of England and Wales, in terms of its development as a poetic project, its structural choices, and its reception by early readers. It sets the tension in the text between the loc...