Noun
English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637)
Source: WordNetI feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful. .... I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through. Leonard Cohen
Craft is something you learn by studying models. When a student asks, what is a good book about traditional iambic verse, The Collected Poems of Ben Jonson. What is an excellent book about free verse? The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams. Robert Pinsky
Although William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were actors, the majority do not seem to have been performers, and no major author who came on to the scene after 1600 is known to have supplemented his income by acting. Source: Internet
"Ben Jonson", Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge, volume 10, p. 388. citation Early life Westminster School master William Camden cultivated the artistic genius of Ben Jonson. Source: Internet
Ben Jonson is also known to have written a play Richard Crookback in 1602, but it was never published and nothing is known about its portrayal of the king. Source: Internet
Ben Jonson mentions him in the same breath as Christopher Marlowe (with whom, in London, Kyd at one time shared a room) and John Lyly in the Shakespeare First Folio. Source: Internet