Ben Jonson

The title poem is Queueing for the Sun in Walbrook. Some of her subjects here are literary: a poem about Boethius , another about Ben Jonson 's visit to Drummond of Hawthornden , a...

It is in three volumes, with a title-page quotation from Ben Jonson .

After Salve DeusAL placed The Description of Cooke-ham, which modern literary history identifies as the first country-house poem (a title which used to be given to Ben Jonson 's To Penshurst). Last...

Bulstrode had by now been dead several years. Competing versions of the text were issued this year. The main work in this volume, the poem about the choice of a wife, was clearly extremely popular...

As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan , her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich . She wrote two stage works that were performed...

Only a handful of copies of this survive (four were known in 1996). It was included by Germaine Greer , Jeslyn Medoff , and others in Kissing the Rod, 1988, and selected by...

EI did not choose the plays herself. Shakespeare fills the first five volumes, apart from one piece by Ben Jonson , and five of her own plays fill volume 20. The eighteenth century is better...

Lady Willoughby , the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661. The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...

CL 's comedy Old City Manners (an adaptation from Eastward Hoe! by Ben Jonson and others) opened at Drury Lane .

LAC performed (with Lady Mary Wroth ) in Ben Jonson 's Masque of Beauty.

The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that...

Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...

During CB 's lifetime Ben Jonson attacked her by calling her both a fool and a whore. After her death, both he and John Donne eulogized her morals and also her wit.

Starr pronounced in 1931: As a literary production, The Concealed Fansyes is practically without value.He noted its general and specific indebtedness to Ben Jonson , asserted a likeness between its pair of brothers and...

The text opens with several Ballads of the Sea, which include the title poem and the patriotic Eastward Ho! During the Russo-Turkish War. The latter's allusion to Kingsley 's Westward Ho! (apart...