sonnets, which are the expression of a genuine passion, stand far above most of the contemporary Petrarcan imitations. A remarkable burlesque poem Polemo Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (printed anonymously in 1684) has been persistently, and with good reason, ascribed to him. It is a mock-heroic tale, in macaronic Latin enriched with Scottish Gaelic expressions, of a country feud on the Fife lands of his old friends the Cunninghams. English composer Gerald Finzi's Three Short Elegies Op. 5 (1926) consists of musical settings for unaccompanied chorus of three of Drummond's poems: "Life a Right Shadow Is", "This World A Hunting Is" and "This Life, Which Seems So Fair". Archives Drummond, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, was a prolific collector of books and manuscripts, who donated over 600 items to his former University from 1626. As well as treasures in the fields of literature, history, geography, philosophy and theology, science, medicine and law, Drummond also donated several, now 'iconic', Shakespeare quartos. These quartos included a copy of the first good quarto of Romeo and Juliet, published during Shakespeare’s lifetime, Drummond's contemporary. Works by Jonson, Spenser, Drayton and Sir Philip Sidney were also donated. A volume of memorials compiled by William Drummond and continued by his son (also William) is held at the University of Dundee as part of the archives of the Brechin Diocesan Library. Editions Siefring, Jacob, and Joshua Rothes, eds. (2021). A Cypresse Grove. Seattle, WA: Sublunary Editions. ISBN 978-1-955190-23-7. See also Henry Adamson References Sources This work in turn cites: Standard biography of Drummond by David Masson (1873) Extracts from the Hawthornden manuscripts preserved in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, printed by David Laing in Archaeologia Scotica, vol. iv. External links William Drummond's poetry Drummond, William Drummond, William William People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Anglo-Catholic poets 17th-century Scottish poets Scots Makars Drummond, William Scottish Anglo-Catholics Scottish Episcopalians Scottish Renaissance writers English-language poets People from Midlothian Burials in Midlothian