{"product_id":"2026200014926-secondhand-ben-jonsons-conversations-with-william-drummond-of-hawthornden","title":"Ben Jonson's Conversations With William Drummond Of Hawthornden","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: Reprint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the winter of 1618–1619, the great English playwright and poet Ben Jonson made an extraordinary journey on foot from London to Edinburgh, culminating in a series of intimate conversations with the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden — a remarkable encounter that Drummond faithfully recorded and which stands today as one of the most candid and revealing documents in all of English literary history. Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, edited with introduction and notes by R. F. Patterson, presents this singular record in its fullest scholarly context, illuminating Jonson's unguarded opinions on his contemporaries, his craft, his rivals, and his turbulent life with a directness that no formal work of the period could afford.\n\nPatterson's meticulous editorial hand brings both rigour and accessibility to a text that sits at the intersection of biography, literary criticism, and social history, offering an unparalleled window into the intellectual world of Jacobean England. Jonson's voice comes through these pages with startling immediacy — opinionated, sharp-tongued, and fiercely self-aware — making this edition as indispensable to students of Renaissance literature as it is compelling to the general reader. What emerges is not merely a portrait of one man, but a vivid panorama of an entire literary age, leaving the reader to wonder just how much of what Jonson said he ever intended to survive him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203160875227,"sku":"2026200014926-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/949aab35-1bc2-4a85-aead-7bd1b4789173.png?v=1788144770","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014926-secondhand-ben-jonsons-conversations-with-william-drummond-of-hawthornden","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}