In his book collecting as in his poetry, William Drummond was conservative and imitative. As reported in Notes of Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1842), Jonson said th...
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William Drummond of Hawthornden was a Scotsman whose English poetry--elegant, sensuous, and fluid--established him in his time as Edinburgh's unofficial poet laureate. Tracing the extensive borrowings...
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William Drummond of Hawthornden
