Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. Jonson always seemed to be poor, in spite of gifts from royalty, and he died in great poverty in ...

Chroniclers and poets wrote informally about royal events for centuries, including Ben Jonson who was unofficially referred to as a poet laureate. Find out more about nine Poet Laureates from history ...

Though the concept is old school given it harkens back to 1616 when England’s King James I granted a pension to poet Ben Jonson, poetry to share culture and literacy has been a staple of the ...

"In Bluestone’s poetry, the plays of Ben Jonson and the escapades of Harpo Marx go on forever,” says fellow poet Louis Simpson. “Whatever has happened must still be happening.” For Stephen Bluestone ...

His literary fellows venerated him, Ben Jonson declaring him “the first poet in the world in some things” (even though he disparaged Donne’s metrics). Although the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ...

Often, Gunn’s mode is exquisitely formal. He had real knowledge and understanding of English lyric poetry, producing an edition of Ben Jonson’s poetry – anyone who goes beyond Jonson’s most famous ...

400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age ...

The poetry criticism cluster includes critics and scholarly editors who work on poetry from the Renaissance to the present. Our research ranges from Ben Jonson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William ...