> Do the young still read Jonson? He was enormously important in my own
> formation.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
Dunno, Mark. I'm inclined to think Jonson, especially the poetry, is not a
common taste. I certainly came on the poetry relatively late, having loved
the plays from highschool. But when I tried to teach the Jonson Line in
Renaissance Poetry, a la Yvor Winters (and having to edit an anthology from
scratch in order to do so -- this was the days before the Web made texts
easily available), I didn't have much success.
But then neither did I have with Pound or Langland or Stevie Smith. Dunno
if this was me, or the Zeitgeist. Never had the least bother convincing the
kids that Henryson was marvellous, once they got over the ritual screams of
horror at the funny language and spelling. "The Testament of Cresseid"
always went down a bomb.
But hey, isn't Kaspar the youngest among us? What's he got to say on this?
Or Patrick?
Robin
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