b. 1572d. 1637

Benjamin Jonson

Benjamin Jonson
English Renaissance writer Ben Jonson is a favorite among American song composers. His texts have been set by Dominick Argento, Miriam Gideon, Daron Aric Hagen, Ned Rorem, and several others. Photo: Ben Jonson, 1617, Public Domain

Related Information

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Poetry Foundation

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Encyclopedia Britannica

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Songs

Echo’s Song1983 · Echo’s SongsDaron Aric HagenBenjamin JonsonEcho’s Songs1983Daron Aric HagenAnonymous, William Blake, E. E. Cummings, Benjamin Jonson, Edgar Allan Poe, Kenneth Rexroth, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Stein, Sara Teasdale, Walt Whitman

Books

Ben Jonson: The Complete Poems

Benjamin Jonson

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Sheet Music

Echo’s Songs

Daron Aric Hagen
1. Never Pain to Tell Thy Love
2. I Am Not Yours
3. A Dream Within a Dream
4. Echo's Song
5. I Am Rose
6. Lost
7. Why Did You Go
8. Since You Went Away
9. Thou Wouldst Be Loved
10. Look Down, Fair Moon
11. The Mild Mother
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