The Forest

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The Forest is a short compilation of poetry written by Benjamin Jonson. The collection of 15 poems was first shown in the 1616 first folio of his compiled writings.

Benjamin Jonson was an English dramatist, poet, actor, and literary critic of the 17th century, where his creativity had a lingering impression on English poetry and theatrical comedy. He gave fame to the comedy of humors. He is most popular for the comedy plays such as Every Man in His Humour in 1598, Volpone, or The Fox in 1606, The Alchemist in 1610 and Bartholomew Fair in 1614 and for his rhythmic poetry. He is mainly considered as the second ultimately recognized English dramatist during the regime of James I following William Shakespeare.

He was very much well-educated, well-informed and sophisticated man of the English Renaissance with a constant desire for dispute such as in personal and political, artistic and intellectual subject matters. His artistic background was exceptional among the dramatists and the poets of the Jacobean era from 1603 to 1625 and of the Caroline era from 1625 to 1642.

Ben Jonson stated that his family was mainly rooted from the folk of the Anglo-Scottish border country, which ancestry is affirmed by the three spindles or rhombi in the Jonson family coat of arms. One spindle is shaped like a diamond heraldic emblem used in common with the Border-country Johnstone family of Annandale. His priestly father passed away 2 months before he was born, his mother remarried a master bricklayer 2 years after. He went to study in St. Martin’s Lane. Thereafter, a friend of his family paid for his enrollment at Westminster School, were the antiquarian, historian, topographer and officer of arms, William Camden was among his masters. Later, the student and the master became good friends, and the brilliancy of Camden and his wide range of scholarship inspired Jonson’s art and literary sense which is still noteworthy, until his master died.
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