Selected Poems of Ben Jonson

by Dutton,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415967495
• ISBN10: 041596749X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is by turns a savage satirist of his age, an admirer of rural order and hospitality, a lyricist, a court flatterer and a religious poet. He perfected a plain style that has influenced writers down to present. Richard Dutton brings together two major collections of poetry and gives a full introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(12)
A note on the text and punctuation	23	(1)
A note on the Notes	24	(1)
Select bibliography	25	(3)
EPIGRAMS
Dedication to William, Earl of Pembroke	28	(89)
To the Reader	29	(1)
To My Book	29	(1)
To My Bookseller	29	(1)
To King James	30	(1)
On the Union	30	(1)
To Alchemists	30	(1)
On the New Hot-Houses	30	(1)
On a Robbery	31	(1)
To All, To Whom I Write	31	(1)
To My Lord Ignorant	31	(1)
On Something, that Walks Somewhere	31	(1)
On Lieutenant Shift	32	(1)
To Doctor Empiric	32	(1)
To William Camden	33	(1)
On Court-Worm	33	(1)
To Brain-Hardy	33	(1)
To the Learned Critic	34	(1)
To My Mere English Censurer	34	(1)
On Sir Cod the Perfumed	34	(1)
To the Same Sir Cod	35	(1)
On Reformed Gamester	35	(1)
On My First Daughter	35	(1)
To John Donne	36	(1)
To the Parliament	36	(1)
On Sir Voluptuous Beast	36	(1)
On the Same Beast	36	(1)
On Sir John Roe	37	(1)
On Don Surly	37	(1)
To Sir Annual Tilter	38	(1)
To Person Guilty	38	(1)
On Bank the Usurer	38	(1)
On Sir John Roe	38	(1)
To the Same	39	(1)
Of Death	39	(1)
To King James	39	(1)
To the Ghost of Martial	40	(1)
On Chev'ril the Lawyer	40	(1)
To Person Guilty	40	(1)
On Old Colt	40	(1)
On Margaret Ratcliffe	41	(1)
On Gypsy	41	(1)
On Giles and Joan	41	(1)
To Robert, Earl of Salisbury	42	(1)
On Chuff, Banks the Usurer's Kinsman	42	(1)
On My First Son	43	(1)
To Sir Luckless Woo-All	43	(1)
To the Same	43	(1)
On Mongrel Esquire	44	(1)
To Playwright	44	(1)
To Sir Cod	44	(1)
To King James. Upon the happy false rumour of his death	44	(1)
To Censorious Courtling	45	(1)
To Old-End Gatherer	45	(1)
On Chev'ril	45	(1)
To Francis Beaumont	46	(1)
On Poet-Ape	46	(1)
On Bawds, and Usurers	46	(1)
To Groom Idiot	47	(1)
On Spies	47	(1)
To William, Lord Mounteagle	47	(1)
To Fool, or Knave	47	(1)
To Fine Lady Would-Be	48	(1)
To Robert, Earl of Salisbury	48	(1)
To the Same	48	(1)
To My Muse	49	(1)
To Sir Henry Cary	50	(1)
To Thomas, Earl of Suffolk	50	(1)
On Playwright	51	(1)
To Pertinax Cob	51	(1)
To William Roe	51	(1)
On Court-Parrot	51	(1)
To Courtling	51	(1)
To Fine Grand	52	(1)
To Thomas, Lord Chancellor	52	(1)
On Lip, the Teacher	53	(1)
On Lucy, Countess of Bedford	53	(1)
To One that Desired Me Not to Name Him	54	(1)
To Hornet	54	(1)
To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland	54	(1)
Of Life, and Death	55	(1)
To Prowl the Plagiary	55	(1)
On Cashiered Capt(ain) Surly	55	(1)
To a Friend	55	(1)
To Lucy, Countess of Bedford	56	(1)
To Sir Henry Goodyere	56	(1)
To the Same	56	(1)
On Captain Hazard the Cheater	57	(1)
On English Monsieur	57	(1)
To Edward Alleyn	58	(1)
On Mill, My Lady's Woman	58	(1)
To Sir Horace Vere	59	(1)
The New Cry	59	(2)
To Sir John Radcliffe	61	(1)
To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr Donne's Satires	61	(1)
To Sir Henry Savile	62	(1)
To John Donne	63	(1)
On the New Motion	63	(1)
To Sir Thomas Roe	64	(1)
To the Same	64	(1)
On Playwright	65	(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper	65	(1)
To William, Earl of Pembroke	66	(1)
To Mary, Lady Wroth	67	(1)
To Susan, Countess of Montgomery	68	(1)
To Mary, Lady Wroth	68	(1)
To Sir Edward Herbert	69	(1)
To Captain Hungry	69	(1)
To True Soldiers	70	(1)
To Sir Henry Nevil	71	(1)
To Clement Edmonds	71	(1)
To the Same, on the Same	72	(1)
To a Weak Gamester in Poetry	72	(1)
To Sir Thomas Overbury	73	(1)
To Mrs Philip Sidney	74	(1)
On the Town's Honest Man	74	(1)
To Sir William Jephson	75	(1)
On Groin	76	(1)
On Gut	76	(1)
To Sir Ra(l)ph Shelton	76	(1)
Epitaph on S.P.	77	(1)
To Benjamin Rudyerd	77	(1)
To the Same	78	(1)
To the Same	78	(1)
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H.	78	(1)
To Sir William Uvedale	79	(1)
To His Lady, then Mrs Cary	79	(1)
To Esme, Lord Aubigny	79	(1)
To William Roe	80	(1)
To Mime	80	(1)
To Alphonso Ferrabosco, on his Book	81	(1)
To the Same	82	(1)
To Mr Joshua Sylvester	82	(1)
On the Famous Voyage	83	(1)
The Voyage Itself	83	(8)
THE FOREST
Why I Write Not of Love	91	(1)
To Penshurst	91	(3)
To Sir Robert Wroth	94	(3)
To the World	97	(2)
Song: To Celia	99	(1)
To the Same	100	(1)
Song: That Women Are But Men's Shadows	100	(1)
To Sickness	101	(1)
Song: To Celia	102	(1)
(`And must I sing? What subject shall I choose?')	103	(1)
Epode	104	(3)
Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland	107	(3)
Epistle to Katherine, Lady Aubigny	110	(4)
Ode to Sir William Sidney, on his Birthday	114	(2)
To Heaven	116	(1)
Notes	117