Ben Jonson (Oxford Poetry Library) - Softcover

Jonson, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192823019 ISBN 13: 9780192823014

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1995

Synopsis

During the reign of King James I, Jonson's literary prestige and influence were unrivalled. This annotated collection of his poetry includes many of his best-known works, such as "To Penshurst", "A Speech According to Horace", "The Forest" and "The Underwood", as well as various epigrams.

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Review

"Wonderful...selection, layout, typography all excellent."--Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University

About the Author

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born in London, and became a leading poet, playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age. In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, and by 1616 had re-established enough Court favour to be awarded a pension by James I - in effect making him the first Poet Laureate.

Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms (1954), while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. That same year, he moved to California and stayed there for the rest of his life, teaching at Berkeley and living in San Francisco. He published nine books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Gunn also published a Collected Poems (1994) and two collections of essays, The Occasions of Poetry (1982) and Shelf Life (1993). He was awarded many major prizes and fellowships from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Thom Gunn died in 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192823019
• ISBN 13: 9780192823014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Donaldson Ian