But our laws must settle most political disputes. Selden’s common sense was a gift to his country and to the constitutional ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

and plain style poets (Ben Jonson). Shakespeare’s poetry, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and selected works by women authors (including Queen Elizabeth herself) will be represented in the syllabus.

A defining feature of elegy is the struggle between poetic eloquence and inarticulate grief, and in these works by Ben Jonson, Anne Bradstreet ... and what happens when the form and language of love ...