The Poems of Ben Jonson (Longman Annotated English Poets)

Synopsis

Ben Jonson, who was with Shakespeare and Marlowe one of three principal playwrights of his age, was also one of its most original and influential poets. Known best for the country house poem ‘To Penshurst’ and his moving elegy ‘On my First Son’, his work inspired the whole generation of seventeenth-century poets who declared themselves the ‘Sons of Ben’. This edition brings his three major verse publications, Epigrams (1616), The Forest (1616), and Underwood (1641) together with his large body of uncollected poems to create the largest collection of Jonson’s verse that has been published. It thus gives readers a comprehensive view of the wide range of his achievement, from satirical epigrams through graceful lyrics to tender epitaphs. Though he is often seen as the preeminent English poet of the plain style, Jonson employed a wealth of topical and classical allusion and a compressed syntax which mean his poetry can require as much annotation for the modern reader as that of his friend John Donne. This edition not only provides comprehensive explanation and contextualization aimed at student and non-specialist readers alike, but presents the poems in a modern spelling and punctuation that brings Jonson’s poetry to life.

Copyright:

2021

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

1,222 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317445210

Related ISBNs:

9781138904712, 9781032022598, 9781315696195

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

11/10/21

Copyrighted By:

Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly, The right of Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly to be identified as the authors of the editorial material has been asserted in accordance with sections

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Ruth Connolly

Edited by:

Tom Cain