Ben Jonson (Poet to Poet) - Softcover

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born in London, and became a leading poet, playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age. In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, and by 1616 had re-established enough Court favour to be awarded a pension by James I - in effect making him the first Poet Laureate. Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. That same year, he moved to California and stayed there for the rest of his life, teaching at Berkeley and living in San Francisco. He published nine books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Gunn also published a Collected Poems (1994) and two collections of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982) and Shelf Life (1993). He was awarded many major prizes and fellowships from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Thom Gunn died in 2004.

And Must I Sing? What Subject Shall I Choose?
A Celebration Of Charis: 1. His Excuse For Loving
A Celebration Of Charis: 10. Another Lady's Exception
A Celebration Of Charis: 2. How He Saw Her
A Celebration Of Charis: 3. What He Suffered
A Celebration Of Charis: 4. Her Triumph
A Celebration Of Charis: 5. His Discourse With Cupid
A Celebration Of Charis: 6. Claiming A Second Kiss By Desert
A Celebration Of Charis: 7. Begging Another Kiss ...
A Celebration Of Charis: 8. Urging Her Of A Promise
A Celebration Of Charis: 9. Her Man Described ... Dictamen
An Elegy (2)
Epigram On Court-worm
Epigram: Of Death
Epigram: On Bank The Usurer
Epigram: On Bawds And Userers
Epigram: On Captain Hazard The Cheater
Epigram: On Cashiered Captain Surly
Epigram: On Cheveril
Epigram: On Chuff, Bank's The Usurer's Kinsman
Epigram: On Court - Parrot
Epigram: On Gypsy
Epigram: On Lippe, The Teacher
Epigram: On Mill, My Lady's Woman
Epigram: On Mongrel Esquire
Epigram: On Old Colt
Epigram: On Poet-ape
Epigram: On Sir John Roe (1)
Epigram: On Sir John Roe (2)
Epigram: On Sir John Roe (3)
Epigram: On Sir Voluptuous Beast
Epigram: On The Same (voluptuous) Beast
Epigram: To A Friend
Epigram: To Censorious Courtling
Epigram: To Courtling
Epigram: To Fool, Or Knave
Epigram: To Groom Idiot
Epigram: To Hornet
Epigram: To Kng James
Epigram: To My Muse
Epigram: To Old-end Gatherer
Epigram: To One That Desired Me Not To Name Him
Epigram: To Person Guilty
Epigram: To Person Guilty
Epigram: To Pertinax Cob
Epigram: To Playwright
Epigram: To Prowl The Plagiary
Epigram: To Robert, Earl Of Salisbury (1)
Epigram: To Robert, Earl Of Salisbury (2)
Epigram: To Robert, Earl Of Salisbury, Upon Acession To Treasureship
Epigram: To Sir Annual Tilter (samuel Fuller)
Epigram: To Sir Cod
Epigram: To Sir Luckless Woo-all
Epigram: To Sir Sir Henry Goodyere
Epigram: To The Parliament
Epigram: To The Same (sir Luckless Woo-all)
Epigram: To Thomas, Earl Of Suffolk
Epigram: To Thomas, Lord Chnacellor (egerton)
Epigram: To William Roe
Epigram: To William, Lord Monteagle
Epistle Answering To One That Asked To Be Sealed Of The Tribe Of Ben
An Epistle To A Friend, To Persuade Him To The Wars
Epistle To Elizabeth, Countess Rutland
Epistle To Katherine, Lady Aubigny
An Epistle To Master John Selden
Epitaph On Elizabeth, L.h.
Epitaph On S. P., A Child Of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel
Epode
An Execration Upon Vulcan
An Expostulation With Inigo Jones
A Fit Of Rhyme Against Rhyme [or, Rime]
Freedom In Dress [or, Clerimont's Song, Or, Sweet Neglect]
The Hour-glass
Hymn To Cynthia [or, To Cynthia]
Karolin's Song [or, Love And Death]
Life And Death
The Musical Strife; In A Pastoral Dialogue
My Picture Left In Scotland
The New Cry
The New Inn: A Vision Of Beauty
An Ode
Ode
An Ode To Himself
Ode To Sir William Sidney, On His Birthday
On A Robbery
On Cheveril The Lawyer
On Don Surly
On English Monsieur
On Giles And Joan
On Groin
On Gut
On Lieutenant Shift
On Lucy, Countess Of Bedford
On Margaret Ratcliffe
On My First Daughter
On My First Son
On Playwright (1)
On Playwright (2)
On Reformed Gamester
On Sir Cod The Perfumed
On Something That Walks Somewhere
On Spies
On The Famous Voyage
On The New Hot-house
On The New Inn. Ode. To Himself
On The New Motion
On The Town's Honest Man
On The Union
Song [or, Echo's Dirge For Narcissus]
Song: That Women Are But Men's Shadows
Song: To Celia
A Speech According To Horace
To A Weak Gamester In Poetry
To Alchemists
To All To Whom I Write
To Alphonso [alfonso] Ferrabosco, On His Book
To Benjamin Rudyerd
To Brain-hardy
To Captain Hungry
To Celia
To Clement Edmonds, On His Caesar's Commentaries Observed (2)
To Clement Edwards, On His Caesar's Commentaries Observed (1)
To Doctor Empiric
To Edward Allen (alleyne)
To Elizabeth, Countess Of Rutland
To Esme, Lord Aubigny
To Fine Grand
To Fine Lady Would-be
To Francis Beaumont
To Heaven
To His Lady, Then Mistress Cary
To John Donne (1)
To John Donne (2)
To King James
To King James; Upon The Happy False Rumour Of His Death
To Lucy, Countess Of Bedford
To Lucy, Countess Of Bedford, In A ... Cynthia's Revels
To Lucy, Countess Of Bedford, With Mr. Donne's Satires
To Mary, Lady Wroth (1)
To Mary, Lady Wroth (2)
To Master John Burges
To Mime
To Mistress Philip Sidney
To Mr. Joshua Sylvester
To My Book
To My Bookseller
To My Lord Ignorant
To My Mere English Censurer
To Penshurst
To Sickness
To Sir Edward Herbert
To Sir Henry Cary
To Sir Henry Goodyere
To Sir Henry Nevil
To Sir Henry Savile [upon His Translation Of Tacitus]
To Sir Horace Vere
To Sir John Radcliffe
To Sir Ralph Shelton
To Sir Robert Wroth
To Sir Thomas Overbury
To Sir Thomas Roe (1)
To Sir Thomas Roe (2)
To Sir William Jephson
To Sir William Uvedale
To Susan, Countess Of Montgomery
To The Ghost Of Martial
To The Immortal Memory ... Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir Henry M
To The Learned Critic
To The Memory Of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare
To The Reader
To The Reader
To The Right Honourable, The Lord High Treasurer Of England
To The Same Sir Cod
To The Same [benjamin Rudyerd] (2)
To The Same [benjamin Rudyerd] (3)
To The World
To True Soldiers
To William Camden
To William Roe
To William, Earl Of Pembroke
True Balm
Volpone: To Celia
Why I Write Not Of Love
Inviting A Friend To Supper
To A Friend, An Epigram Of Him
Epode: 2. The Praises Of A Country Life
Keeping Endless Holiday
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