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EARL OF 925 (b) dramas, (c) the heroic fragment on See also:

Jonathan and the See also:long poem on Doomesday. a. His earliest effort was See also:Aurora, containing the first fancies of the author's youth (See also:London, 1604), a See also:miscellany of sonnets, songs and elegies, showing considerable formal felicity, if little originality, in the favourite themes of the Elizabethan sonneteers. To this may be added the Paraenesis to See also:Prince See also:Henry (u.s.), An Elegie on the See also:Death of Prince Henrie (u.s.), and shorter pieces, including a See also:sonnet to See also:Michael See also:Drayton, who had called See also:Alexander " a See also:man of men," and lines on the See also:Report of the Death of See also:Drummond of Hawthornden. b. He wrote four tragedies, See also:Darius (1603), See also:Croesus (1604), The Alexandraean (1605), and See also:Julius See also:Caesar (1607). The first and second were published together in 1604 as the Monarchicke Tragedies, a See also:title which was afterwards given by Alexander to a See also:print of the four See also:works in the See also:editions of 1607 and 1616. They are didactic poems rather than plays, a sequence of reflections of the type of the Falls of Princes, the See also:Mirror for Magistrates, or See also:Lyndsay's Dialog between Experience and a Courteour (known also as the " Monarche "). It is very probable that the last suggested both motif and title. The pieces are dialogues rather than dramas: the choruses are of the " Moralitas " type of See also:Renaissance See also:verse rather than classical; and the varied versification is unsuitable for See also:representation. Yet they contain not a few See also:fine passages in the soliloquies, notably one in Darius (IV., iii.) on the vanishing of " Those See also:golden palaces, those gorgeous halls " as " vapours in the See also:air," which recall See also:Shakespeare's later lines in the See also:Tempest. c.

Of Jonathan, an Heroicke Poeme intended, only the first See also:

book (105 eight-lined stanzas) was written. Doomesday, or The See also:Great See also:Day of the See also:Lord's Judgement (1614) is a dreary See also:production in twelve books or " See also:hours," extending to nearly 12,000 lines. It is written in eight-lined stanzas. In addition to the pamphlet on Colonization, he wrote (1614) a continuation or " completion " to the third See also:part of See also:Sidney's See also:Arcadia, which appears in the See also:fourth and later editions of the See also:Romance; and a See also:short See also:critical See also:tract entitled Anacrisis, a " censure " of poets, See also:ancient or See also:modern. A collected edition of his works appeared in his lifetime (1637) with the title Recreations with the See also:Muses (See also:folio). Aurora and the Elegie were not included. A See also:complete modern reprint The Poetical Works . . . now first collected and edited (but without the editor's name on the title-See also:page) was published in 3 vols. 8vo. in 187o (See also:Glasgow: See also:Maurice Ogle & Co.). His Encouragement to Colonies was edited for the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club by See also:David See also:Laing (1867), and by See also:Edmund F. Slafter, in See also:Sir W. Alexander and Amer.

Colonization (Prince Society, See also:

Boston, See also:Massachusetts, 1865). See also E. F. Slafter, The See also:Copper Coinage of the Earl of See also:Stirling, 7632 (1874) ; The Earl of Stirling's See also:Register of Royal Letters relative to the Affairs of See also:Scotland and Nova See also:Scotia from 161.5-1635 (ed. C. See also:Rogers, with See also:biographical introduction (1884—1885) ; C. Rogers, Memorials of the Earl of Stirling (1877); the introduction to the Works (187o) referred to above; the Register of the Privy See also:Council of Scotland, passim; and the bibliography for See also:William Drummond (q.v.) of Hawthornden. (A. B. G.; G. G.

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