Ben Jonson

1572 - 1637

Benjamin Jonson was an English poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I."

Poems

On My First Daughter
To Penshurst
A Pindaric Ode
To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H Morison
fromWitches' Song
A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
Song to Celia II
Epitaph on SP, a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel
On my First Son
To My Book
On Something, That Walks Somewhere