One of his poems ironically says "He that first invented thee, may his joints tormented be" in reference to the title concept. Another of his poems calls his son, who died at the age of seven, his "best piece of poetry." That first poem is a satirical work which inveighs against rhymed poetry but is itself rhymed. He wrote a poem which praises a house even though it is not "built to envious show of touch or marble, nor can boast a row of polished pillars, or a roof of go
One of his poems ironically says "He that first invented thee, may his joints tormented be" in reference to the title concept. Another of his poems calls his son, who died at the age of seven, his "best piece of poetry." That first poem is a satirical work which inveighs against rhymed poetry but is itself rhymed. He wrote a poem which praises a house even though it is not "built to envious show of touch or marble, nor can boast a row of polished pillars, or a roof of gold." That poem, which was influenced by Horace and itself influenced many later country house poems, is "To Penshurst." This author of "A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme" and "On My First Sonne" is better known for a poem which tells the addressee to "leave a kiss but in the cup and I'll not look for wine" after telling her to "drink to me only with thine eyes." For 10 points, name this poet of "To Celia."
One of his poems ironically says "He that first invented thee, may his joints tormented be" in reference to the title concept.
Ben Jonson