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I read Nimphidia for the first time last month, & felt moved to re-read, enjoying it just as much the 2nd time around. Despite Tolkien's criticisms, his poem "Errantry" has something of a similar flavour.
Briggs's entry on Nimphidia is collected under the topic Diminutive Fairies, which gives a potted history of the development of the Small People in Elizabethan times. I also found a blog which gives a more detailed & informative review of Drayton

Tolkien hated it, but I loved it! I'd imagine it a source of inspiration for painter Richard Dadd's "The Fairy-Feller's Master Stroke".
It's not high poetry, but it's evocative & suited to its theme and folkloric roots. The story is simple: the fairy knight, Pigwiggan, & Queene Mab agree on a tryste, King Oberon discovers he is to be cuckolded & completely loses his shit. Puck is dispatched to punish the Queene, while Oberon sets out to kill...

"This Pallace standeth in the Ayre,
By Nigromancie placéd there...
The Walls of Spiders legs are made,
Well mortizéd and finely layd,
He was a master of his Trade,
It curiously that builded:
The Windowes of the eyes of Cats,
And for the Roofe, instead of Slats,
Is cover'd with the skinns of Batts,
With Mooneshine that are guilded."
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Unexpected (who am I kidding? 😏) #bookhaul I went for one book I'd ordered and came home with eight! 😒📚📚
This one is the prize, I think. A 1921 limited edition of 510 copies, of which mine, Precious, is number 149 😊
Originally published in 1627, it's a poem of 88 8-line stanzas, set in the Fayrie Court of Queen Mab and King Oberon, involving (based on my initial scan) the romance between the faerie knight, Pigwiggen and the fay, Nimphidia 💚