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William Drummond of Hawthornden

Born

in Hawthornden, Midlothian Scotland

December 13, 1585

Died

December 04, 1649

Genre

Poetry, History

Influences

Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney ...more

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William Drummond of Hawthornden was a Scottish poet. He received his early education at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, and graduated in July 1605 as Magister Artium of the recently founded University of Edinburgh.

Drummond's first publication appeared in 1613, an elegy on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, called Teares on the Death of Meliades. The poem shows the influence of Spenser's and Sidney's pastoralism. In the same year he published an anthology of the elegies of Chapman, Wither and others, entitled Mausoleum, or The Choisest Flowres of the Epitaphs. In 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death, appeared Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains, Madrigals, being substantially the story of his love ...more

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	The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden by William Drummond of Hawthornden, William C. Ward (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1604 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cypresse Grove 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1623 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flowres of Sion; to which is adjoyned his Cypresse Grove 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1623 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems and Prose by William Drummond of Hawthornden, Brian H. McNiven (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Delphi Complete Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden by William Drummond of Hawthornden, Delphi Classics (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poetical Works of William Drummond, Volume 2: with A Cypresse Grove by William Drummond of Hawthornden, Leon Emile Kastner (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint John Baptist 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden Volume 2 by William Drummond of Hawthornden, William C. Ward 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robert Southwell, Selected Poems. Henry Constable, Pastorals and Sonnets. William Drummond, Songs, Sonnets, Etc by William Drummond of Hawthornden, Henry Constable, Robert Southwell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	NOTES OF BEN JONSON'S CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by William Drummond of Hawthornden (?)

“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.”
― William Drummond

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“Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.”
― William Drummond

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“If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as the body and the soul?”
― William Drummond 1623

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