POET
Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
BIOGRAPHY
Ben Jonson’s (1572-1637) “Song to Celia” is known to millions as “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.” Jonson was educated at the prestigious Westminster School in London. He took up acting, and by 1597 he was writing original plays. Jonson’s first widely acclaimed play, Every Man in His Humour, included William Shakespeare in its cast.
POEMS
A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
A Celebration of Charis: IV. Her Triumph
A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair
Epicoene, or the Silent Woman: Still to be neat, still to be drest
Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell
To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir
To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
