Navoiy state pedagogical institute the faculty of english language and literture the department of the practical english language course

THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION OF UZBEKISTAN
NAVOIY STATE PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE
THE FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERTURE
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PRACTICAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE

COURSE PAPER

THEME: Ben Jonson as the first English poet of odes and his unique style

SUBJECT:
THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LIT­ERATURE­

RESEARCHER:Muhiddinova Nurxona ____ (signature) Group 203
SCIENTIFIC ADVISER: AKGYUMYUSH N.M ______
The work is defended on “__” _____(date)
And is assessed at “___”points
Navoi – 2022

Contents
Introduction………………………………………………..……………...3-4
Chapter II Ben Jonson as the first English poet of odes……………….5-
1.1 Early life and career………………………………………………….5-8
1.2 His work and Poetry………………………………………………….9-11
1.3Ben Jonson's ascendance, decline and death……………………….12-14
Chapter II Ben Jonson his unique style………………………………...15-
2.1 The Influence of Ben Jonson on the Poetry of Yeats……………...15-19
2.2 Ben Jonson : the poet as maker…………………………………….20-26
Conclusion……………………………………………………………….27-28
References……………………………………………………………….29-30

Introduction
Benjamin Jonson (c. June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet, and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age of William Shakespeare and proved to be his greatest literary rival. As opposed to Shakespeare and to a number of other poets and dramatists of the day, Jonson was devotedly classical in his approach to literature, preferring to treat his characters as abstract types derived from Greek and Roman models rather than as complex, living personalities. For this, Jonson has fallen out of favor with most contemporary students of literature. On the other hand, Jonson was ahead of his time in choosing to write plays about ordinary people rather than re-invent legends from bygone eras. In this regard, some regard him as a pioneer of the bourgeois sensibility that would prevail in literature of the next three centuries.
Jonson was undoubtedly one of the most well-read men in the England of his day.¹ He was famous for criticizing even Shakespeare of having learned "Little Latin and less Greek," and his knowledge of the Greek and Latin classics, as evidenced by copious allusions and quotations scattered throughout all his works, was extensive. He is one of the very last poets (with the possible exception of John Milton) to take the Greek and Latin classics as serious models of high art. Although generations of writers would continue to study the classics after Jonson's death, the vast majority would view the classical writers as noble dinosaurs, who achieved what they could in their ancient times, but who were nonetheless inapplicable to the artistic concerns of the rapidly modernizing world.
As the most popular and well-respected poets of his day, Jonson is considered informally to be the first Poet Laureate of England. In that position of influence, Jonson promoted a number of poets who were less admired but nonetheless have proven to be some of the brightest minds in all of English literature. Jonson lived in a world of literary giants: John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, and of course William Shakespeare. Although he may have disagreed with some of these luminaries on points of style, he was nonetheless conversant with their works.