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a carpe diem poem 
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of 
Time”. But he does not attempt seduction; instead he advises 
girls to marry while they are young, or else there may be no takers:
To the Virgins, to M ake Much o f Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-tlying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.


Then be not coy, but use your time,
And, while ye may, go marry;
For, having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
John Milton, a Puritan, the 17lh century poet, also wrote on the 
carpe diem theme, but he followed another approach. In the 
sonnet “On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty T hree” he 
frets over not having accomplished anything important by that 
point in his life, but he ends by placing his faith in heaven.
The concern with time that is major aspect of the carpe diem 
theme continues to appear in literature through the years up to the 
present.
Ben Jonson 
(1572 - 1637)
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Ben Jonson was reared to the bricklayer’s trade and had no 
benefit of a formal university education. But, by force of will,


became a great scholar of the classics and consequently affected 
English literature for nearly two hundred years.
Jonson’s major contribution to poetry was to adapt the poetic 
forms that had been used by the classic writers of ancient Rome. 
Jonson was influenced by poets who had composed centuries 
before in Latin. He introduced to English specific and strong 
language, great order and balance. He is considered the forerunner 
of English neoclassicism.
Ben Jonson is the author of the best English satirical comedies. 
Among his best works are: “Volpone, or the Fox”(1606), “The 
Silent Woman”, “The Alchemist”( 1610), “Bartholomew Fair”. 
His hostility to tyrants was expressed in his tragedies “Sejanus 
His Fall” (Sejunus’s Fall), and “Catiline His Conspiracy” (Catiline’s 
Conpiracy).
Ben Jonson was also a fine lyric poet. His miner poems and 
the songs in many of his plays are true masterpieces. But it was 
in the genre of satirical comedies that Ben Jonson became leader 
and excelled all other dramatists. Jonson’s comic manner of 
depicting characters typical of contemporary life influenced the 
whole English literature. He was friendly with Shakespeare. King 
James made him poet laureate. A numbe r of young poets of his 
time, including Herrick and Lovelace respecting Jonson’s talents, 
called themselves the “Sons of Ben” . Among his followers we 
may list the novelists of the enlightenment and such writers of 
later periods as Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw and John Boynton 
Priestly.

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