Description
One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth centuryBen Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poetwhose poetry combined classical ideals with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and colloquial language. The Complete Poems contains all the volumes of poetry Jonson published in his lifetime – including EpigramsThe Forest and Underwoods – alongside a wide variety of his other poems collected after his death. Ranging from deeply moving pieces such as ‚On My First Son‘ and the elegant love lyric ‚Song to Celia‘ to brutally satirical poems such as ‚On Poet-Ape‘ and the reflective ‚An Ode to Himself’it offers a powerful celebration of both one man’s lifeand of an age.
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