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    A Study Guide for Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia"
    A Study Guide for Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia"
    A Study Guide for Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia"
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    A Study Guide for Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia"

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    A Study Guide for Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535833653
    A Study Guide for Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia"

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      Song: To Celia

      Ben Jonson

      1616

      Introduction

      Although Ben Jonson is best known for his plays, his poetry had a significant impact on seventeenth-century poets and has come to be as highly regarded as that of his contemporary William Shakespeare. Edmund Gosse, in The Jacobean Poets, concludes that Jonson was rewarded by the passionate devotion of a tribe of wits and scholars . . . and he enjoys the perennial respect of all close students of poetry. Jonson's lyric ballad Song: To Celia is his most beloved and anthologized poem. Soon after its publication, it was put to music by an anonymous composer, after which it became a popular song in public houses. Song: To Celia was included in the book The Forest, published in 1616. It appears in the sixth edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (1993).

      Jonson's Song: To Celia is a short monologue in which a lover addresses his lady in an effort to encourage her to express her love for him. Jonson includes conventional imagery, such as eyes, roses, and wine, but employs them in inventive ways. As a result, the poem becomes a lively, expressive song extolling the immortality of love. John Addington Symonds, in his 1886 study of Jonson, calls the poem a masterpiece in its purely lyric composition and individuality. He concludes that Jonson's lyrics "struck the key-note of the seventeenth

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