The Poems of Ben Jonson

ISBN-13: 9781138904712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 1222 str.

Tom Cain; Ruth Connolly

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This edition brings Jonson's three major 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.

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Chronological Table of Jonson’s Life  Abbreviations  THE POEMS  POEMS 1597-1616  1 From The Case is Altered  2 From Thomas Palmer, The Sprite of Trees and Herbs  3 From Cynthia’s Revels  4 From Nicholas Breton, Melancholic Humours.  5 An Epistle to a Friend  6 From England’s Parnassus  7 [On Thomas Nashe]  8 From Love’s Martyr  9 Prologue, Songs and Poems from Poetaster  10 Ode  11 A Speech out of Lucan  12 From Hugh Holland, Pancharis  13 B. J. his Panegyre  14 From Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind in General  15 From Every Man in His Humour  16 From The Masque of Blackness  17 From Hymenaei: or The Solemnities of Masque and Barriers  18 From Volpone  19 From An Entertainment at Theobalds  20 From The Entertainment for the Merchant Taylors Company  21 From The Masque of Beauty  22 From The Haddington Masque  23 From The Masque of Queens  24 From The Entertainment at Britain's Burse  25 Epitaph on Cecilia Bulstrode  26 From John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess  27 From Epicene  28 From Oberon, The Fairy Prince  29 From Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly  30 From Coryate’s Crudities  31 From Coryate’s Crambe  32 From Love Restored  33 From Thomas Farnaby’s Juvenal  34 From Thomas Farnaby’s Persius  35 From Thomas Farnaby’s Seneca  36 A Speech presented unto King James at a Tilting  37 From John Stephens, Cynthia’s Revenge  38 To the Most Noble, and Above His Titles, Robert, Earl of Somerset  39 From The Irish Masque at Court  40 From Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third  41 From The Husband  42 From Bartholomew Fair  43 Song from Mercury Vindicated  44 Martial. [Epigram 10.47]  45 From The Golden Age Restored  46 From William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals  EPIGRAMS.  TO THE GREAT EXAMPLE OF HONOUR AND VIRTUE, THE MOST NOBLE WILLIAM, EARL OF PEMBROKE  1. To the Reader  2 To My Book  3 To My Bookseller  4 To King James  5 On the Union  6 To Alchemists  7 On the New Hot-House  8 On a Robbery  9 To All to Whom I Write  10 To My Lord Ignorant  11 On Something that Walks Somewhere  12 On Lieutenant Shift  13 To Doctor Empiric  14 To William Camden  15 On Court-Worm  16 To Brain-Hardy  17 To the Learned Critic  18 To My Mere English Censurer  19 On Sir Cod the Perfumed  20 To the Same Sir Cod  21 On Reformed Gamester  22 On My First Daughter  23 To John Donne  24 To the Parliament  25 On Sir Voluptuous Beast  26 On the Same Beast  27 On Sir John Roe  28 On Don Surly  29 To Sir Annual Tilter  30 To Person Guilty  31 On Bank the Usurer  32 On Sir John Roe  33 To the Same  34 Of Death  35 To King James  36 To the Ghost of Martial  37 On Cheverel the Lawyer  38 To Person Guilty  39 On Old Colt  40 On Margaret Ratcliffe  41 On Gypsy  42 On Giles and Joan  43 To Robert, Earl of Salisbury  44 On Chuff, Banks the Usurer’s Kinsman  45 On My First Son  46 To Sir Luckless Woo-All  47 To the Same  48 On Mongrel Esquire  49 To Playwright  50 To Sir Cod  51 To King James, Upon the Happy False Rumour of his Death  52 To Censorious Courtling  53 To Old-End Gatherer  54 On Cheverel  55 To Francis Beaumont  56 On Poet-Ape  57 On Bawds and Usurers  58 To Groom Idiot  59 On Spies  60 To William, Lord Monteagle  61 To Fool, or Knave  62 To Fine Lady Would-Be  63 To Robert, Earl of Salisbury  64 To the Same, Upon the Accession of the Treasurership to Him  65 To My Muse  66 To Sir Henry Cary  67 To Thomas, Earl of Suffolk  68 On Playwright  69 To Pertinax Cob  70 To William Roe  71 On Court-Parrot  72 To Courtling  73 To Fine Grand  74 To Thomas, Lord Chancellor Egerton  75 On Lip the Teacher  76 On Lucy, Countess of Bedford  77 To One That Desired Me Not to Name Him  78 To Hornet  79 To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland  80 Of Life and Death  81 To Prowl the Plagiary  82 On Cashiered Captain Surly  83 To a Friend  84 To Lucy, Countess of Bedford  85 To Sir Henry Goodyere  86 To the Same  87 On Captain Hazard the Cheater  88 On English Monsieur  89 To Edward Alleyn  90 On Mill, My Lady’s Woman  91 To Sir Horace Vere  92 The New Cry  93 To Sir John Radcliffe  94 To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, With Master Donne’s Satires  95 To Sir Henry Savile  96 To John Donne  97 On the New Motion  98 To Sir Thomas Roe  99 To the Same  100 On Playwright  101 Inviting a Friend to Supper  102 To William, Earl of Pembroke  103 To Mary, Lady Wroth  104 To Susan, Countess of Montgomery  105 To Mary, Lady Wroth  106 To Sir Edward Herbert  107 To Captain Hungry  108 To True Soldiers  109 To Sir Henry Neville  110 To Clement Edmondes, On his Caesar’s Commentaries Observed and Translated  111 To the Same, on the Same  112 To a Weak Gamester in Poetry  113 To Sir Thomas Overbury  114 To Mistress Philip Sidney  115 On the Town’s Honest Man  116 To Sir William Jephson  117 On Groin  118 On Gut  119 To Sir Rafe Shelton  120 Epitaph on S. P. a child of Q. Elizabeth’s Chapel  121 To Benjamin Rudyerd  122 To the Same  123 To the Same  124 Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H.  125 To Sir William Uvedale  126 To his lady, then Mistress Cary  127 To Esmé, Lord Aubigny  128 To William Roe  129 To Mime  130 To Alfonso Ferrabosco, on his Book  131 To the Same  132 To Master Joshua Sylvester  133 On the Famous Voyage  THE FOREST  1 Why I Write Not of Love  2 To Penshurst  3 To Sir Robert Wroth  4 To the World: A Farewell for a Gentlewoman, virtuous and noble  5 Song To Celia  6 To the Same  7 Song That Women are but Men’s Shadows  8 To Sickness  9 Song. To Celia  10(a) Proludium  10 ‘And must I sing?’  11 Epode  12 Epistle To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland  13 Epistle To Katherine, Lady Aubigny  14 Ode to Sir William Sidney, on his Birthday  15 To Heaven  POEMS 1616-1636  47 From Christmas His Masque  48 From The Vision of Delight  49 From Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue  50 From George Chapman, The Georgics of Hesiod. To My Worthy and Honoured Friend Master George Chapman  51.1 To Master Ben Jonson in his Journey By Master Craven.  51.2 This Was Master Ben Jonson’s Answer of the Sudden  52.1 A Grace by Ben Jonson Extempore Before King James  52.2 A Form of a Grace  52.3 Ben Jonson's Grace before King James  53 Charles Cavendish to His Posterity  54 Leges Convivales  55 Verses Over the Door at the Entrance into the Apollo  56 From Pan’s Anniversary, or The Shepherd's Holy-day  57 From A Masque of the Metamorphosed Gypsies  58 From The Masque of Augurs  59 From James Mabbe, The Rogue. On the Author, Work, and Translator  60 From Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. To the Reader  61 From Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.  To the Memory of My Belovèd, The Author Master William Shakespeare And What He Hath Left Us  62 From Neptune’s Triumph for the Return of Albion 63 To the Memory of That Most Honoured Lady Jane, Eldest Daughter to Cuthbert, Lord Ogle, and Countess of Shrewsbury  64 From The Staple of News  65 To My Chosen Friend the Learned Translator of Lucan 66 From The Battle of Agincourt. The Vision of Ben Jonson on the Muses of his Friend Michael Drayton  67 [Song. Death and Love Paralleled]  68 From The New Inn  69 The just indignation the author took at the vulgar censure of his Play by some malicious spectators begat this following Ode to Himself  70 Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle  71 From Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field. On the Honoured Poems of His Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet  72 From Edward Filmer, French Court Airs 73 From Love's Triumph Through Callipolis  74 From Chloridia. Rites to Chloris and her Nymphs  75 An Expostulation with Inigo Jones  76 To Inigo, Marquis Would-Be: A Corollary  77 To A Friend: An Epigram of Him  78.1 Epigram. To my kind friend Mr Ben: Johnson upon his epigram to the Lord Treasurer  78.2 To My Detractor  79 From The Northern Lass… The Author of this Work, Master Richard Brome  80.1 Mr Gil to Mr Ben: Johnson upon the occasion of his Magnetic Lady  80.2 [An Answer to Alexander Gil]  81 [A Song of Welcome to King Charles]  82 [A Song of the Moon]  83 From The King’s Entertainment at Welbeck  84 From Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man’s Mortality 85 From Joseph Rutter, The Shepherd’s Holiday 86 From Annalia Dubrensia. An Epigram to My Jovial Good Friend Master Robert Dover  THE UNDERWOOD  1. Poems of Devotion  1.1 The Sinner’s Sacrifice to the Holy Trinity  1.2 A Hymn to God the Father  1.3 A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour  2 A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces  2.1 His Excuse for Loving  2.2 How He Saw Her  2.3 What He Suffered  2.4 Her Triumph  2.5 His Discourse with Cupid  2.6 Claiming a Second Kiss by Desert  2.7 Begging Another, on Colour of Mending the Former  2.8 Urging Her of a Promise  2.9 Her Man Described by Her Own Dictamen  2.10 Another Lady’s Exception, Present at the Hearing  3 The Musical Strife, in a Pastoral Dialogue  4 A Song  5 In the Person of Womankind: A Song Apologetic  6 Another: In Defence of their Inconstancy: A Song  7 A Nymph’s Passion  8 The Hourglass  9 My Picture Left in Scotland  10 Against Jealousy  11 The Dream  12 An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbett  13 An Epistle to Sir Edward Sackville, Now Earl of Dorset  14 An Epistle to Master John Selden  15 An Epistle to a Friend, to Persuade Him to the Wars  16 An Epitaph on Master Philip Gray  17 Epistle To a Friend  18 An Elegy 19 An Elegy  20 A Satirical Shrub  21 A Little Shrub Growing By  22 An Elegy  23 An Ode. To Himself  24 The Mind of the Frontispiece to a Book  25 An Ode to James, Earl of Desmond, Writ in Queen Elizabeth’s Time; since lost, and recovered  26 An Ode (‘High-spirited friend’)  27 An Ode   28 A Sonnet: To the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth  29 A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme  30 An Epigram on William, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England  31 An Epigram: To Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, The Last Term He Sat Chancellor  32 Another to Him  33 An Epigram to the Counsellor that pleaded and carried the cause  34 An Epigram. To the Smallpox  35 An Epitaph. On Elizabeth Chute  36 A Song  37 An Epistle to a Friend  38 An Elegy 39 An Elegy  40 An Elegy  41 An Elegy  42 An Elegy  43 An Execration upon Vulcan  44 A Speech According to Horace  45 An Epistle to Master Arthur Squibb  46 An Epigram on Sir Edward Coke, When He Was Lord Chief Justice of England  47 An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben  48 The Dedication of the King’s New Cellar: to Bacchus  49 An Epigram on the Court Pucelle  50 An Epigram: To the Honoured –––– Countess of ––––  51 Lord Bacon’s Birthday  52a A Poem Sent Me by Sir William Burlase  52b My Answer: The Poet to the Painter  53 An Epigram to William, Earl of Newcastle  54 Epistle to Master Arthur Squibb  55 To Master John Burgess  56 Epistle To My Lady Covell  57 To Master John Burgess   58 Epigram, to My Bookseller  59 An Epigram to William, Earl of Newcastle  60 An Epitaph on Henry, Lord La Ware  61 An Epigram  62 An Epigram to King Charles, for a hundred pounds he sent me in my sickness. 1629  63 To King Charles and Queen Mary for the Loss of their First-Born: An Epigram Consolatory. 1629  64 An Epigram to Our Great and Good King Charles, On His Anniversary Day. 1629  65 An Epigram on the Prince’s Birth. 1630  66 An Epigram to the Queen, then lying in. 1630  67 An Ode, or Song by all the Muses in Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday. 1630  68 An Epigram to the Household. 1630  69 Epigram. To a Friend and Son  70 To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir LUCIUS CARY and Sir HENRY MORYSON  71 To the Right Honourable, the Lord High Treasurer of England. An Epistle Mendicant. 1631   72 To the King on his Birthday. An Epigram Anniversary, November 19, 1632  73 On the Right Honourable and Virtuous Lord Weston, Lord High Treasurer of England, upon the day he was made Earl of Portland. 17 February 1633  74 To the Right Honourable Jerome, Lord Weston: An Ode gratulatory, for his return from his embassy, 1633  75 Epithalamion  76 The Humble Petition of Poor Ben to th’ Best of Monarchs  77 To the Right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England: An Epigram  78 An Epigram to My Muse, the Lady Digby, on Her Husband, Sir Kenelm Digby  79 A New Year’s Gift sung to King Charles. 1636  [80, 81 See Dubia]  82 To My Lord the King, On the Christening His Second Son James  83 An Elegy on the Lady Jane Paulet, Marchioness of Winchester  84 Eupheme, or The Fair Fame Left to Posterity Of That Truly Noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby  84.1 The Dedication of her cradle  84.2 The Song of Her Descent  84.3 The Picture of the Body  84.4 The Mind  84.8 Her Hopeful Issue  84.9 An Elegy on My Muse, the truly honoured Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby … Being her ᾺΠΟΘΕѠΣΙΣ, or relation to the saints  85 The Praises of a Country Life. Horace, Epode 2  86 Horace, Ode the First. The Fourth Book. To Venus  87 Horace, Odes, Book 3.9, To Lydia Dialogue of Horace and Lydia  88 A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter Translated  89 Martial, Epigram 8.77 Translated  HORACE, OF THE ART OF POETRY  DUBIA  1 Poems possibly by Jonson: Ode. 2 Poems by other authors included in Underwood