Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
William Drummond
Standard Name: Drummond, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wroth | In 1613 LMW
was praised in verse by George Wither
and Joshua Sylvester
. Most of these poets chose to celebrate her mind, even more than her beauty. (So, besides those named, did William Drummond |
| Literary responses | Anna Hume | AH
's delicate verses were praised in her own day by the leading Scots poet William Drummond of Hawthornden
. |
| Reception | Mary Oxlie | This work listed MO
as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton
, seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Melvill | The volume closes with A comfortabill Song (beginning Away, vain world), which expresses faith in God's mercies and a resolution to pursue the Christian calling. It takes off from or parodies a recent madrigal... |
| Textual Production | Mary Oxlie | MO
wrote her only poem known to survive, a heartfelt compliment To William Drummond
of Hawthornden; it mentions some of the contents of his Poems, 1616. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Mary Oxlie | MO
's poem To William Drummond
of Hawthornden reached print in Edward Phillips
's posthumous edition of Drummond's Poems. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Edward Phillips English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Oxlie, Mary, and William Drummond. “To William Drummond of Hawthornden”. Poems, edited by Edward Phillips and Edward Phillips, Richard Tomlins. |
| Textual Production | Anna Hume | AH
mentions finding the manuscript of The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus when she returned from elsewhere to my Countrey, which might mean Scotland or more precisely the family estate. She... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Oxlie | The poem gives ten lines to humble self-deprecation, in iambic pentameter couplets: a metre which serves to separate this passage from the rest, since the remaining 42 lines, which praise Drummond
's descriptive powers, are... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | U. A. Fanthorpe | The title poem is Queueing for the Sun in Walbrook. Some of her subjects here are literary: a poem about Boethius
, another about Ben Jonson
's visit to Drummond of Hawthornden
, a... |
Timeline
10 July 1919: The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender...
Writing climate item
10 July 1919
The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender
(a Scottish baronet's daughter) and named after William Drummond
of Hawthornden, was first awarded, for the best work of imaginative literature
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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Texts
Oxlie, Mary, and William Drummond. “To William Drummond of Hawthornden”. Poems, edited by Edward Phillips and Edward Phillips, Richard Tomlins, 1656.