Altho' you should recall, Rob, Jonson's swipe at Donne: 'that he, Donne, for
not keeping of accent, deserved hanging'. He was very rigid formalist, but
with an acute if prejudiced (!) ear.
On 26 March 2010 16:00, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jonson could do 'stuffe' like that in his sleep, Rob.
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> On 26 March 2010 14:23, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>> 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).
>>>
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>> 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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