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...Latin verses in running ; yet that he wished, to please the King, that piece of Forth Feasting had been his own.' Drummond piqued himself on polished imitations...hardly calculated to secure the perfect sympathy of an Italianated brother-poet. That thin thread of bitter feeling, which may certainly be traced in Drummond's...

...Jonson's Conversations with Drummond," we know that he was strongly opposed to sonnet writing : " he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets ; which he said were like that Tirrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short." Those critics...

...Drummond of Hawthornden, " He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which, he said, was like that tyrant's bed where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short." Italians, Frenchmen and Spaniards, that with commendation have written in rime, were demanded whether...

...Drummond of Hawthornden, " He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets, which, he said, was like that tyrant's bed where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short. " Italians, Frenchmen and Spaniards, that with commendation have written in rime, were demanded whether...

...artifice inherent in the metrical principles of the sonnet when he told Drummond of Hawthornden that ' he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets which...were too short were racked, others too long cut short ' (Jonson's Conversation, p. 4). or parodies of the conventional efforts.1 Even Shakespeare does not...

...artifice inherent in the metrical principles of the sonnet when he told Drummond of Hawthornden that ' he cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets which he said were like that tyrant's lied, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short' (Jonson's Conversation,...

...Bartas4 a poet, but a verser, because he wrote fiction. He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets ; which he said were like that tyrant's bed,...were too short were racked, others too long cut short ; that Guarini in his ' Pastor Fido ' 1 Abraham Fraunce. 2 Dryden dubbed Jonson ' the most learned...

...records the tirade against the sonnet to which I have alluded. Drummond says that one day Jonson " cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets ; which he said were like that Tirant's bed, wher some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short" — meaning, of...

..." cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets ; which he said were like that Tirant's bed, wher some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short" — meaning, of course, the famous bed of Procrustes. That Jonson could say such a thing at all is...