1619 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. John Marston

Ben Jonson, Conversation with Drummond (1619); Drummond, Works (1711) 225.

Commentary for
Rev. John Marston:

1598: Bp. Joseph Hall
1598: Edward Guilpin
1599: John Weever
1602: John Manningham
1606: Anonymous
1611 ca.: John Davies of Hereford
1619: Ben Jonson
1764: David Erskine Baker
1776: Anonymous
1781: Rev. Thomas Warton
1820: John Payne Collier
1822: Anonymous
1834: Robert Aris Willmott
1862: Thomas Arnold
1866: John Payne Collier
1874: William Minto
1879: Thomas Corser
1880: William Minto
1882: Epes Sargent

Commentary by
Ben Jonson:

1600: Nicholas Breton
1608: Joshua Sylvester
1614: Christopher Brooke
1616: Edward Alleyn
1616: Francis Beaumont
1616: William Browne of Tavistock
1616: William Camden
1616: Rev. John Donne
1616: Rev. John Donne
1616: Sir Henry Goodere
1616: Sir Henry Goodere
1616: Sir Thomas Overbury
1616: Sir John Roe
1616: Sir John Roe
1616: Sir John Roe
1616: John Weever
1618: George Chapman
1619: Samuel Daniel
1619: Rev. John Donne
1619: William Drummond
1619: Sir John Harington
1619: Rev. John Marston
1627: Michael Drayton
1627: Thomas May
1629: Sir John Beaumont
1635 ca.: Sir William Cavendish
1635 ca.: Sir Kenelm Digby
1635: Joseph Rutter
1640: John Taylor the Water Poet

He fought several Times with Marston, and says, That Marston wrote his Father-in-Law's Preachings, and his Father-in-law his Comedies.