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A consensus formed: Jonson was the first English poet to understand classical precepts with any accuracy, and he was the first to apply those precepts successfully to contemporary life. But there were also more negative spins on Jonson's learned art; for instance, in the 1750s, Edward Young casually remarked on the way in which Jonson's learning worked, like Samson's strength, to his own ...
- Ben Jonson
- 1572-1637
- Literature / Science / Philosophy
- English
May 1, 2016 · A consensus formed: Jonson was the first English poet to understand classical precepts with any accuracy, and he was the first to apply those precepts successfully to contemporary life. But there were also more negative spins on Jonson's learned art; for instance, in the 1750s, Edward Young casually remarked on the way in which Jonson’s learning worked, like Samson’s strength, to his own ...
- circa June 11, 1572
- London, England
- August 06, 1637 (61-69)
Sep 27, 2020 · poetry, which discusses Precepts not in its chapter on wisdom poems, but in a chapter entitled ‘Minor Religious Poems,’ where it falls under the subheading of ‘Homiletic Verse’ ( 1943 : 323).
- Leonard Neidorf
The earliest English poetry. The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon (fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
British Romanticism. An introduction to the poetic revolution that brought common people to literature’s highest peaks. BY The Editors. “ [I]f Poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all,” proposed John Keats in an 1818 letter, at the age of 22. This could be called romantic in sentiment, lowercase ...
Recent criticism has done much to defend the narrative poems on the grounds of their thematic variety, rhetorical ingenuity, and power to move the minds and senses of readers. Shakespeare’s commitment to classicism, however, has not received a similarly careful re-evaluation. Reasons for such critical neglect are not far to seek.
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Caedmon is recognised as the first English poet composing his Hymn in the 7th century at Whitby Abbey, as told by Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English people. Ben Johnson. 8 min read. Our green and pleasant land has played host to many notable wordsmiths through the centuries. Names like Shakespeare, Chaucer, Wordsworth and Keats ...
