Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . yes dost hear ; Nor knowst Hopes sweet disease that charms our sense. Nor its sad cure, dear bought Kxpericnce. To the sonnet he appended this note : The date of this \rvcdrhimc and the ; the very Iledchambcr where I could notsleep. See his Corres/oiidenee with his son, the first Earl ofLothian (1875). William Drummond William Drnuiiuond of Hawthornden (1585-1649) rose as a poet abov
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . yes dost hear ; Nor knowst Hopes sweet disease that charms our sense. Nor its sad cure, dear bought Kxpericnce. To the sonnet he appended this note : The date of this \rvcdrhimc and the ; the very Iledchambcr where I could notsleep. See his Corres/oiidenee with his son, the first Earl ofLothian (1875). William Drummond William Drnuiiuond of Hawthornden (1585-1649) rose as a poet above mere provincial fame,and was associated in friendship and genius withhis great English contemporaries. His father, SirJohn Drummond, was gentleman-usher to KingJames, and the poet seems to have inherited hisreverence for royalty—few authors have been moreoutspoken in their loyalty. Having graduated atEdinburgh and studied civil law in France (1607-8),he succeeded his father in 1610 as second laird ofHawthornden—a perfect home for a poet. In allScotland there are few more beautiful glens thanthe cliffs, caves, and wooded banks of the Esk atHawthornden, hereafter to be known for Drum-. WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN. From the Engraving prefixed to his Works {Edinburgh, 1711). monds sake as classic Hawthornden ; and closeby is the ornately sculptured Roslin Chapel, besungby Scott. Drummond was a most accomplishedman, well read not merely in Greek and Latin litera-ture, but in French, Italian, Spanish, and 1613 he published Tears on the Death of Mali-ades, or Henry, Prince of Wales. In 1616 appeareda volume of Poems: Amorous, Funeral/, Divine,Pastoral!, in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains, Madrigals,chiefly of love and sorrow. The death of his wife(1614), within a year of her marriage, was keenlyfelt; he did not xazxry again for eighteen Feasting, a Panegyric to the Kings MostExcellent Majesty (1617), congratulates Jameseffusively and lengthily on his revisiti
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