One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose 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 Epigrams, The 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 life, and of an age.
- ISBN10 0300028288
- ISBN13 9780300028287
- Publish Date 1 May 1982 (first published 28 May 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 634
- Language English