Jonson, Ben

Jonson, Ben (1572 - 1637)

Index to poems
  1. A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
  2. A Celebration of Charis: IV. Her Triumph
  3. A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
  4. A Hymn to God the Father
  5. A Pindaric Ode
  6. An Ode to Himself
  7. Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair
  8. Epicoene, or the Silent Woman: Still to be neat, still to be drest
  9. Epigrams: An Epitaph on S.P.
  10. Epigrams: Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
  11. Epigrams: On my First Son
  12. Epigrams: To John Donne
  13. Epigrams: To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
  14. My Picture Left in Scotland
  15. Ode to Himself upon the Censure of his "New Inn"
  16. Song to Celia
  17. The Metamorphosed Gypsies
  18. To Heaven
  19. To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
  20. Volpone: Come my Celia, let us prove
Biography

The standard edition of Jonson's Works is the monumental one by Herford and Simpson (11 vols.; London: Oxford University Press, 1925-53). Most of Jonson's poems appeared first in the Folio of 1616, the later poems in the Second Folio of 1640.

Given Name
Ben
Family Name
Jonson
Birth Date
0, 1572
Death Date
August 6, 1637
Nationality
English
Family Relations
daughter : Mary Jonson
son : Benjamin Jonson
son : Benjamin Jonson
Education
Religion
Honours
Occupations
Literary Period
Jacobean
Literary Movement
Unknown
Illness
Buried At
the Nave, Westminster Abbey
First RPO Edition
1997