Editing Ben Jonson (section)

===Other works===
* ''Epigrams'' (1612)
* ''The Forest'' (1616), including ''To Penshurst''
* ''On My First Sonne'' (1616), [[elegy]]
* ''A Discourse of Love'' (1618)
* [[John Barclay (poet)|Barclay]]'s ''[[Argenis]]'', translated by Jonson (1623)
* ''The Execration against Vulcan'' (1640)
* [[Ars Poetica (Horace)|''Horace's Art of Poetry'']], translated by Jonson (1640), with a [[commendatory verse]] by [[Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury|Edward Herbert]]
* ''Underwood'' (1640)
* ''English Grammar'' (1640)
* ''Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion of the times'', (London, 1641) a [[commonplace book]]
* ''[[To Celia]]'' ''(Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes)'', poem

It is in Jonson's ''Timber, or Discoveries...'' that he famously quipped on the manner in which language became a measure of the speaker or writer:

{{quote|Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech. Nay, it is likened to a man; and as we consider feature and composition in a man, so words in language; in the greatness, aptness, sound structure, and harmony of it.|Ben Jonson, 1640 (posthumous)<ref>Jonson, B. "Discoveries and Some Poems," Cassell & Company, 1892.</ref>}}

As with other English Renaissance dramatists, a portion of Ben Jonson's literary output has not survived. In addition to ''[[The Isle of Dogs (play)|The Isle of Dogs]]'' (1597), the records suggest these lost plays as wholly or partially Jonson's work: ''Richard Crookback'' (1602); ''Hot Anger Soon Cold'' (1598), with Porter and [[Henry Chettle]]; ''Page of Plymouth'' (1599), with Dekker; and ''Robert II, King of Scots'' (1599), with Chettle and Dekker. Several of Jonson's masques and entertainments also are not extant: ''The Entertainment at Merchant Taylors'' (1607); ''The Entertainment at Salisbury House for James I'' (1608); and ''The May Lord'' (1613–19).

Finally, there are questionable or borderline attributions. Jonson may have had a hand in ''[[Rollo Duke of Normandy|Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother]]'', a play in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. The comedy ''[[The Widow (play)|The Widow]]'' was printed in 1652 as the work of [[Thomas Middleton]], Fletcher and Jonson, though scholars have been intensely sceptical about Jonson's presence in the play. A few attributions of anonymous plays, such as ''[[The London Prodigal]]'', have been ventured by individual researchers, but have met with cool responses.<ref>Logan and Smith, pp. 82–92.</ref>