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Tag: Ben Jonson

228. (John Donne)

Among the tissues of judgments that compose a poem will be a judgment about what a poem plays at doing … More

Ben Jonson, John Donne, Poetry

135. (Ben Jonson)

Whether he is the first or not, Ben Jonson is among the earliest of the major American writers. A perverse … More

Ben Jonson, Poetry, Politics and Poetry, Renaissance poetry

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

Ben Jonson, John Donne, Poetry

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

Ben Jonson, Empson, Erving Goffman, John Hollander, Painting and Poetry, Realism, T.S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Wordsworth
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