Ben Jonson

(1572-1637)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 NRA: Jonson Benjamin (? 1573-1637) Dramatist and Poet DNB: Jonson, Benjamin [Ben] (1572-1637), poet and playwright LBT ID: BeJonso1637 VIAF ID: 56611738 LOC ID: n80044918	B/BAP: 1572-06-11 DIED: 1637-08
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English dramatist, critic, and epigrammatist, friend of William Shakespeare and John Donne.
REFERENCES TO Ben Jonson: Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin, 13 January 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [21 August 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [13 October 1804] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Gifford to Henry Drury, 1806 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [September 1806] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 6 Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 5 November 1813 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Distressing Circumstances in High Life [Byron's Separation]” in The Examiner (21 April 1816) 247-50 Found 1: ¶ 7 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 6 September 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Mr. Hazlitt’s Letter to Mr. Gifford (Concluded)” in The Examiner (14 March 1819) 171-73 Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 26 March 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Robert Southey to Neville White, 14 December 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 January 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 11 March 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Verse 2: p. 110-2 p. 110-2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) On the drama; on superstition Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805-1872, “Sketches of Contemporary Authors. Sir Walter Scott” in The Athenaeum 1 (11 March 1828) 217-19 Found 1: ¶ Charles Lamb to Sarah James, [16 April? 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 Verse 2: p. 265a p. 265a Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 23 Life of Byron: 1821 Charles Lamb to William Ayrton, 14 March 1830 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 20 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 54 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (June 1834) 583-93 Found 1: ¶ 6 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1771-78 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter II 1805 Chapter V 1808 Found 1: ¶ 24 Chapter VI 1821 Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter VII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 27 Chapter I 1826-27 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter III 1828 Found 1: ¶ n1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Family History Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVIII. 1813 Ch. XXIII. 1818 Ch. XXV. 1820-1821 Found 1: ¶ n1 Vol. V Appendix Found 1: ¶ 6 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 7: Quarterly Review Found 1: ¶ 13 Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, 7 July 1857 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 4 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter IV Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 8 Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 18 Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 19 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 18 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1797 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 11 Leigh Hunt Douglas Jerrold Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Dickens Found 3: ¶ 21 ¶ 23 ¶ 60 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter IV. 1808. L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 9 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 19 Chap. XXI. Found 1: ¶ 54 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Letters: 1804 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 4 Letters: 1825 Found 1: ¶ 12 Letters: 1826 Found 1: ¶ 6 Letters: 1829 Letters: 1830