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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING (or STERLINE). [Bora about 1580, of a family whic'i had for some time owned Mcnstne in Clackmannan. In early life he travelled, ar.d on M retum, or during his absence, wrote Aurora, F1rst Fancies of the Author's youth, a small volume of sonntts and songs to a real or imaginary lady called Aurora. He became a courtier in 1603, and followed James to London In 16:3 he published at Edinburgh The Tragedie of Darius; in 16: t4 he rep1intcd it, adding The Tragedie of Croesus and The Partentsis to Prince Henry in 1607 he reprinted the two tragedies and added The Ahxandrenn Tragedy and Julius Caesar, under the joint tide of ' Four Monarchicke Tragedies.' He helped King James in his veision of the Psalms. Knighted in 1621, and made .Secretary of State for Scotland in i6i6, he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Canada in 1630, a'.d created Earl of Stirling 1633. He printed a folio edition of his tragedies and of the religious poem of Domesday in 1637, and died 1640.] Mr. Masson in his life of Drummond pronounces a severe judgment over the grave of Drummond's friend, Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling. 'There he lies, I suppose, to this day, vaguely remembered as the second-rate Scottish sycophant of an inglorious despotism, and the author of a large quantity of fluent and stately English verse which no one reads.' He certainly played no very glorious part in the attempts of James and Charles to impose episcopacy on Scotland; unconscious all the while that he was one of those who were preparing the way for a ' Monarch- icke Tragedie' as terrible as ary of the four that he had put into verse. That the bulk of his poetry deserves that neglect which, as Mr. Masson truly says, has befallen it, is not likely to be disputed by those who hav...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458880697
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 150
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458880699
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 281 gr


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