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...American poet laureateship grew out of the English medieval tradition of granting royal patronage to poets who traveled from court to court. The first de facto laureate was Ben Jonson, who received a pension from King James I in 1616. John Dryden was the first to bear the official title of "laureate," which was bestowed on him in 1670. He received an honorarium of ?100 for writing birthday poems for the royal family. Since then, poets including William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson have held the post in England. Their only duty was to write poems for national occasions. Their...
...Shakespeare's," says Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate. "And there's no doubt he's been unluckily marginalized. But I object to the idea that he alone is Shakespeare's equal. Christopher Marlowe was as good at tragedy as Middleton. And the best comedies of the age are probably Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts." Taylor welcomes the debate: "That's the way scholarship works: people disagreeing with each other. Now that we have this edition, everyone can go to work." After 400 years as English drama's dirty little secret...
...players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that . . . he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand!" --Ben Jonson...
...demonstrate that the manuscript had been in the Bodleian for centuries, that there was no possibility of its being a modern fake. No less important was the evidence that other works in the collection had been attributed without error to such poets as Robert Herrick and Ben Jonson. Then came the search for what Taylor calls "forensic evidence of a literary kind . . . stylistic fingerprints...
...addition to the national team members, local talents Ashley Albrecht, Krista Jonson, Allie Sanchez and Chelsea Brodt (Winny’s sister) were recruited to shore up the defense. In all, 13 of 20 Golden Gophers are from Minnesota...