Drayton, Courtship Games, II: “In my immortal song”

Michael Drayton

Read By: Robert Pinsky

Michael Drayton’s sonnet mocking the sonnet poses, and exaggerates the exaggerations—as Shakespeare and others also do, while quite seriously, also, looking toward immortality or eternity.

  • Michael Drayton
  • 17th Century
  • English
  • Teasing, Flirting & Courting
  • Lecture
  • Teasing
  • Love
  • The Art of Poetry