Ben Jonson's 1616 Folio

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Jennifer Brady, Wyman H. Herendeen
University of Delaware Press, 1991 - 221 من الصفحات
This collection of nine original essays, is a major study of the 1616 Folio as a work of art, as a turning point in Jonson's career, and as an unprecedented event in English letters and printing.

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Jonsons Texts in the First Folio
23
Pretexts to the 1616 Folio
38
Satiric and Ideal Economies in the Jonsonian Imagination
64
Roman Ben Jonson
90
Ben Jonson and the Ideology of Authorship
111
Classicism and NeoClassicism in Jonsons Epigrammes and The Forrest
138
Presse The Contentious Texts of Jonsons Masques
168
Jonsons Folio as Monument and Barrier
192
Contributors
217
Index
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الصفحة 72 - gainst the epilepsy: And I will eat these broths with spoons of amber, Headed with diamond and carbuncle.
الصفحة 81 - To view the jewels, stuffs, the pains, the wit There wasted, some not paid for yet ! But canst at home in thy securer rest, Live with un-bought provision blest...
الصفحة 72 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
الصفحة 70 - Turn short as doth a swallow; and be here, And there, and here, and yonder, all at once; Present to any humour, all occasion; And change a visor, swifter than a thought!
الصفحة 83 - For though the poet's matter nature be. His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat...
الصفحة 80 - Here no man tells my cups, nor, standing by, A waiter doth my gluttony envy, But gives me what I call and lets me eat; He knows below he shall find plenty of meat.
الصفحة 169 - For to have made themselves their own decipherers, and each one to have told upon their entrance what they were and whither they would, had been a most piteous hearing, and utterly unworthy any quality of a poem: wherein a writer should always trust somewhat to the capacity of the spectator, especially at these spectacles...
الصفحة 78 - Adde a thousand, and so more: Till you equall with the store, All the grasse that Rumney yeelds, Or the sands in Chelsey fields, Or the drops in silver Thames, Or the starres, that guild his streames, In the silent sommer-nights, When youths ply their stolne delights. That the curious may not know How to tell' hem, as they flow, And the envious, when they find What their number is, be pin'd.
الصفحة 112 - Forest ; so am I bold to entitle these lesser poems of later growth, by this of UNDERWOOD, out of the analogy they hold to the Forest in my former book, and no otherwise.

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