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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine" |
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NAME THE POET |
2007-12-04 |
#5347 |
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This poet/playwright published his folio of works in 1616, a full 7 years before Shakespeare's |
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BRITISH POETS |
2006-07-20 |
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"We will eat our mullets, soused in wines" & "sup pheasants' eggs", this Elizabethan dramatist wrote in "The Alchemist" |
Ben Jonson
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POETS & POULTRY |
2003-07-16 |
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He not only wrote "To Celia", he wrote "Come, My Celia" as well |
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POETRY |
1993-12-01 |
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Robert Herrick wrote a "Prayer to" this poet in which he called him "Saint Ben" |
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POETS & POETRY |
1992-07-16 |
#1834 |
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Sir John Suckling was one of the "Sons of Ben", 17th C. poets who considered this Ben their literary father |
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POETRY |
1992-02-06 |
#1719 |
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One of England's 1st poets laureate, he wrote to Celia, "Drink to me only with thine eyes" |
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POETS LAUREATE |
1989-12-20 |
#1223 |
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Robert Herrick's ode to this poet begins, "Ah, Ben! Say how or when..." |
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POETRY |
1987-10-05 |
#706 |