Delia - Diana

by Samuel Daniel

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114 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1592

About the author

Samuel Daniel was born in 1562 near Taunton in Somerset to a music-master. In 1579, Daniel was admitted to Magdalen Hall (now known as Hertford College) at Oxford University, where he remained for about three years and afterwards devoted himself to the study of poetry and philosophy.

Late in life, Daniel retired to a farm called The Ridge, near Beckington, in Somerset, where he died on 14 October 1619.

Reviews

[Jad Wannous]

But ah no more, thys hath beene often tolde,
And women grieve to thinke they must be old.
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Still let me sleepe, imbracing clowdes in vaine;
And never wake, to feele the dayes disdayne.
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Though th'error of my youth they shall discover,
Suffice they shew I liv'd and was thy lover.

[Theo]

I found Constable's Diana sonnet cycle to be better poetry, both in sound and meaning, than Daniel's Delia. It's seems pretty clear, particularly after reading the Delia sonnets, that Shakespeare was parodying the whole sonnet "genre" of his time, maybe even the Delia sonnets themselves specifically.