William Drummond

Standard Name: Drummond, William

Connections

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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 .
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She is the only woman listed in James Maidment 's scholarly Catalogues of Scotish Writers...
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, 1656.
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 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...
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...

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, 1971.
89n2
of the year.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
89 and n3, 90-1

Texts

Oxlie, Mary, and William Drummond. “To William Drummond of Hawthornden”. Poems, edited by Edward Phillips and Edward Phillips, Richard Tomlins, 1656.