Ben Jonson

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...

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...

ES , poet, died in King Street, Westminster, London. Ben Jonson 's claim that he starved to death has not generally been believed.

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...

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 ...

LMW performed in The Masque of Blacknesse, which Ben Jonson had written to accommodate the queen 's desire for herself and her ladies to represent black women.

LMW appeared in Jonson 's Masque of Beauty, with the same twelve companions as in his Masque of Blacknesse.

Jonson dedicated to LMWThe Alchemist (which had been first performed in 1610), calling her The Grace, and Glory of women.