I can't remember anything specific (tho I do remember there are
similar moments), and can't locate my Jonson for the nonce, but I'd
bet there's stuff in the Fleet Ditch.
At 01:11 PM 3/26/2010, you wrote:
>>Jonson could do 'stuffe' like that in his sleep, Rob.
>
>Hm, dunno dave, seems to me unlike anything I remember from "To
>Pershurst", for instance. Sure, maybe he could do it in his sleep,
>but did he, other than here?
>
>Whatever, going to have to take time to read the entire damn poem --
>seems a lot more interesting than Pope's "Essay". But then, Wee
>Sandy was much younger when he wrote that than Jonson was when he
>translated the Ars Poetica.
>
>Robin
>
>>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).
>>>
>>>Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
>>>(University of California Press).
>>>http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
>>>
>>>"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book
>>>of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
>>>effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the
>>>United States and also created a superb collection of foreign
>>>poems in English. There is nothing else like it." John
>>>Palattella in The Nation
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