Precious nonsense : the Gettysburg address, Ben Jonson's epitaphs on his children, and Twelfth night / by Booth, Stephen

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Jacobean civic pageants /

Table of Contents: “…The Magnificent entertainment / by Thomas Dekker and Ben Jonson -- The Triumphs of reunited Brittania / by Anthony Munday -- The Triumphs of Truth / by Thomas Middleton -- Monuments of Honour / by John Webster.…”
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Plague writing in early modern England / by Gilman, Ernest B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The view from the mountain -- Diagnosing plague narratives -- The plague and the word -- Jonson, regime change, and the plague of 1603 -- Here lies Ben Jonson -- John Donne : translating the plague -- Writing the "Great plague" : Pepys and Defoe -- Conclusion: The view from here.…”
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English mercuries : soldier poets in the age of Shakespeare / by McKeown, Adam

Table of Contents: “…English mercuries -- Men, money, iron, and bread -- Thomas Churchyard's "Valiant soldiers" and the "Public state" -- A tale of two cities: George Gascoigne's Antwerp and Alarum for London -- John Donne's Emblem of war -- John Harington's Journey home -- Remembering soldiers: Ben Jonson.…”
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Literary circles and cultural communities in Renaissance England /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Hester -- "To all vertuous Ladies in generall": Aemilia Lanyer's community of strong women / Sharon Cadman Seelig -- The invention of the literary circle of Sir Thomas Overbury / John Considine -- "This art will live": social and literary responses to Ben Jonson's New Inn / Robert C. Evans -- Newcastle's ghosts: Robert Payne, Ben Jonson, and the "Cavendish Circle" / Timothy Raylor -- Reading poets reading poets: Herbert and Crashaw's literary ellipse / Paul A. …”
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Green thoughts, green shades : essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric /

Table of Contents: “…The face of the sonnet: Wyatt and some early features of the tradition / Peter Sacks -- Sidney and the sestina / Anthony Hecht -- Naked numbers: a curve from Wyatt to Rochester / Heather McHugh -- Ben Jonson and the loathe̿d word / Linda Gregerson -- Donne's sovereignty / Calvin Bedient -- Anomaly, conundrum, Thy-will-be-done: on the poetry of George Herbert / Carl Phillips -- Milton in the modern: the invention of personality / William Logan -- Finding Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland -- Unordinary passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle / Alice Fulton -- "How coy a figure": Marvelry / Stephen Yenser -- Saint John the rake: Rochester's poetry / Thom Gunn -- Edward Taylor: what was he up to? …”
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Jonson, Horace and the classical tradition / by Moul, Victoria, 1980-

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