Delphi Complete Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

by William Drummond of Hawthornden, Delphi Classics (editor)

William Drummond of Hawthornden was the first notable poet in Scotland to write in English, as well as the first to use the canzone, a medieval Italian metrical form in English verse. He was a cultured and detached man of means, who became close friends with the poet Michael Drayton and the playwright Ben Jonson. He also wrote one of the most celebrated prose essays of the seventeenth century, ‘A Cypresse Grove’, serving as a compelling meditation on death and mutability. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. For the first time in digital publishing, this eBook presents Drummond’s complete works, with illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Drummond’s life and works
* Concise introduction to Drummond’s life and poetry
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Poem text based on W. M. C. Ward’s 1894 edition
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Rare poems digitised for the first time
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Rare prose works, including W. M. C. Ward’s text of ‘A Cypresse Grove’
* Features a bonus biography — discover Drummond’s literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres



The Life and Poetry of William Drummond of Hawthornden
Brief William Drummond
The Poems of William Drummond

The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

The Prose
A Cypresse Grove (1630)
Irene (1638)
A Letter on the True Nature of Poetry
A Speech on Toleration (1654)
History of Scotland during the Reigns of the Five Jameses (1654)
Memorials of State (1654)

The Biography
William Drummond (1900) by Sidney Lee

1179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 25, 2023

About the author

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 for Mary Cunningham of Barns, who was about to become his wife when she died in 1615.

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