Jonson could do 'stuffe' like that in his sleep, Rob.
On 26 March 2010 14:23, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> So he that flaggeth much, becomes to me
>> A _Choerilus_, in whom if I but see
>> Twice, or thrice good, I wonder: but am more
>> Angry. Sometimes, I heare good _Homer_ snore.
>> But, I confesse, that, in a long worke, sleepe
>> May, with some right, upon an Author creepe.
>>
>> Ben Jonson: Horace, Of the Art of Poetrie (1640), p.25 (577 of 844 in
>> Works, vol. 2).
>>
>
> Hey, anyone else noticed what Jonson does with the line endings in the
> couplets above? Sheesh, I thought that wasn't supposed to have happened
> till the 1950s!!! It's *well beyond enjambement, and even wilder than what
> Donne did earlier in the Satyres, and they were radical enough.
>
> Gonna hafta read the entire damn poem.
>
> Why don't they tell us about these things?
>
> Robin
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