Definition of Benjamin Jonson

1. Noun. English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637).

Exact synonyms: Ben Jonson, Jonson
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Benjamin Jonson

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Benioff zone
Benioff zones
Benito
Benito Mussolini
Benjamin
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin David Goodman
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Bridge
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.
Benjamin Harris
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Benjamin Jonson (current term)
Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Kubelsky
Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Shahn
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin West
Benjamin bush
Benjamins
Benji
Benjie
Benjy

Literary usage of Benjamin Jonson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Gifford has remarked that there is a singular resemblance between Benjamin Jonson and Samuel Johnson. Nothing can be more true ; and the similarity is ..."

2. Selections from the British Poets (1840)
"Benjamin Jonson. Benjamin Jonson. 1574-1637. FROM CYNTHIA'S BEVELS. QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep; Seated in thy silver ..."

3. Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth by Thomas Hearne, John Aubrey (1813)
"Benjamin Jonson, (Poet Laureat). I remember when I was a scholar at Trin. coll. Oxon. 1646, I heard Dr. Ralph Bathurst (now deane of Welles) say, ..."

4. Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay by George Saintsbury (1886)
"Benjamin Jonson. Ben Jonson, who was Iwn at Westminster in 1574, and died there in 1637, is not often thought of as ap*sse wnter. His Discoveries, however ..."

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