英美文学简明教程(华中科技大学出版社)
School, where one of his teachers was William Camden. Jonson remained friendly with Camden, whose broad scholarship evidently influenced his own style, until the latter’s death in 1623.
By about the age of twenty he was back in London and married Anne Lewis in 1594.
Later he found himself employed, like Shakespeare, as actor and reviser of plays in the theatre.
About 1598 he displayed his distinguishing realistic style in the comedy Every Man in His Humor, which was acted by Shakespeare’s company.
The plays which Jonson produced the following years were chiefly satirical comedies.
In 1616, he was appointed Poet Laureate and received a substantial pension. In 1616 he stopped writing for the stage and gave himself to study and serious work.
Jonson died on 6 August 1637.
（2）Major Works:14 comedies & 2 tragedies
Every Man in His Humor 《人人高兴》
Volpone 《福尔蓬奈》
The Alchemist 《炼金士》
Sejanus His Fall 《西亚努斯的覆灭》
Catiline His Conspiracy 《卡塔林的阴谋》
11. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
The cavalier poet (knights and squires sided with the King against the Parliament and Puritans)
（1）Life:
Born in London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith, who fell out of a window when Robert was a year old (whether this was suicide remains unclear).
The tradition that Herrick received his education at Westminster is groundless. It is more likely that (like his uncle’s children) he attended The Merchant Taylors’ School.
In 1607 he became apprenticed to his uncle, Sir William Herrick, who was a goldsmith and jeweler to the king.
The apprenticeship ended after only six years when Herrick, at age twenty-two, matriculated at St John’s College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1617.
Robert Herrick became a member of the Sons of Ben, a group centered upon an admiration for the works of Ben Jonson.
In the wake of the English Civil War, his position was revoked on account of his refusal to make pledge to the Solemn League and Covenant.
Herrick became the vicar of Dean Prior again in the summer of 1662 and lived there until his death in October 1674, at the age of 83.
（2）Major Works:
Hesperides 《金苹果园》