William Drummond (of Hawthornden) image
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Born in December 13, 1585 / Died in December 4, 1649 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: CATALOGUES

  • Avctarivm Bibliothecae Edinbvrgenae, five Catalogus Librorum quos Guilielmus Drummondus ab Hawthornden Bibliothecae D. D. Q. Anno 1627 (Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs of Andro Hart, 1627).
  • Robert H. MacDonald, The Library of William Drummond of Hawthornden (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971).
BOOKS
  • Teares on the Death of Meliades (Edinburgh: Printed by Andro Hart, 1613).
  • Poems (Edinburgh?, 1614?); revised as Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Diuine, Pastorall, in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains, Madrigals (Edinburgh: Printed by Andro Hart, 1616).
  • Poems (Edinburgh: Andro Hart, 1616).
  • In Pious Memorie of The Right Worthie and Vertuous Evphemia Kyninghame, Who in the Prime of Her Youth Died the 23. Of Iulie, 1616 [half sheet] (Edinburgh: Printed by Andro Hart, 1617).
  • Forth Feasting: A Panegyrick to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie (Edinburgh: Andro Hart, 1617); revised and published in The Mvses Welcome to the High and Mightie Prince James (Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Finlason, 1618).
  • A Midnights Traunce: Wherein Is Discoursed of Death, the Nature of Soules, and Estate of Immortalitie (London: Printed by G. Purslow for J. Budge, 1619); revised and republished as A Cypresse Grove in Flowres of Sion (1623).
  • Flowres of Sion. By William Drvmmond of Hawthorene-denne. To which is adjoyned his Cypresse Grove (Edinburgh?: Printed by the heirs of Andro Hart?, 1623; revised and enlarged edition, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs of Andro Hart, 1630).
  • The Entertainment of the High and Mighty Monarch Charles King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, into His Auncient and Royall City of Edinburgh, the Fifteeth of Iune, 1633 (Edinburgh: Printed by Iohn Wreittoun, 1633).
  • To the Exequies of the Honovrable, Sr. Antonye Alexander, Knight, etc. A Pastorall Elegie (Edinburgh: Printed in King James his College by George Anderson, 1638).
  • Polemo-Medinia Inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (Edinburgh?, 1645?); republished as Polemo-Middinia. Carmen Macaronicum. Autore Gulielmo Drummundo, Scoto-Britanno (Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1691).
  • The History of Scotland, from the Year 1423 until the Year 1542 (London: Printed by Henry Hills for Richard Tomlins and himself, 1655).
  • Notes of Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1842).
Editions and Collections
  • Poems by That most Famous wit, William Drvmmond of Hawthornden, edited by Edward Phillips (London: Printed for Richard Tomlins, 1656); republished as The most Elegant and Elabourate Poems Of that Great Court-Wit, Mr William Drummond (London: Printed for William Rands, 1659).
  • The Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden, edited by Bishop John Sage and Thomas Ruddiman (Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, 1711).
  • The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden With 'A Cypresse Grove,' 2 volumes, edited by L. E. Kastner (Edinburgh & London: Printed for the Scottish Text Society by W. Blackwood, 1913).
  • Conversations, in Ben Johnson, 22 volumes, edited by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925-1954), I: 128-178.
  • William Drummond of Hawthornden Poems and Prose, edited by Robert H. MacDonald, The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 6 (Edinburgh & London: Scottish Academic Press, 1976)—includes the text of the "Memorialls."
OTHER
  • Mavsolevm; or, The Choicest Flowres of the Epitaphs, Written on the Death of the Neuer-too-much Lamented Prince Henrie, includes two sonnets and an epitaph by Drummond (Edinburgh: Printed by Andro Hart, 1613).
YR 1627 YR 1971 YR 1613 YR 1616 YR 1617 YR 1619 YR 1623 YR 1630 YR 1633 YR 1638 YR 1655 YR 1842 YR 1656 YR 1711 YR 1913 YR 1976 ML The major collection of William Drummond's papers are housed at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh.