Among the tissues of judgments that compose a poem will be a judgment about what a poem plays at doing … More
Tag: Ben Jonson
135. (Ben Jonson)
Whether he is the first or not, Ben Jonson is among the earliest of the major American writers. A perverse … More
63. (Ben Jonson)
Let’s take seriously the traditional opposition between the heirs of Jonson and Donne, and use it to ask again where … More
6. (Ben Jonson)
My first thought was: how odd for Eliot, poet-critic who railed against the dissociation of sensibility, to write: “The immediate … More
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