At a glance: - Author: Samuel Daniel - First Published: 1592 -
Type of Work: Poetry - Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence, Sonnet -
Subjects: Love or romance, Poetry or poets, England or English
people, Upper classes, Women, Sixteenth century, English
language The evidently unauthorized publication of a portion of
Samuel Daniel’s sonnet sequence Delia in 1591, as part of Sir
Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, marked the introduction of
the perfected version of a major poetic form that, within a few
years, had become one of the dominant methods of expression in
English poetry. While Daniel may be relatively unknown in
comparison to Sidney, Edmund Spenser, or William Shakespeare,
with Delia, first published in complete form in 1592, he became
one of the important contributors to the... (The entire page is
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