In Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War, John Stubbs aims to correct a conventional account of the poetic heirs of John Donne and Ben Jonson in 16th-century England. The old account saw ...
Sir John Suckling (1609–1641), dilettante, inventor of cribbage, belonged to the company of Cavalier poets attached to the court of the English king, Charles I, and his queen, Henrietta Maria. Like ...
Readers of The New York Sun, attentive as always, will remember Ben Jonson (1572–1637), whose “To Celia” appeared as Poem of the Day this past June 13, as both a contemporary of Shakespeare and, being ...