Harris Friedberg (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "Ben Jonson's Poetry: Pastoral, Géorgie, Epigram," in English Literary Renaissance, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter, 1974, pp. 111–36.
[In the following essay, Friedberg analyzes Jonson's poems in terms of the classical literary tradition.]
Like Donne, Jonson began his poetic career with the epigram. For a man like Jonson who believed that "it is onely the disease of the vnskilfull, to thinke rude things greater then polish'd: or scatter'd more numerous then compos'd," the epigram remains the perfect form, one...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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