The dramatic works and lyrics of Ben Jonson [selected] With an essay, biographical and critical . fJonsons critical essays perished in a fire whichdestroyed his library at some uncertain datebetween 1619 and 1625. If I were bound to offer in one sentence adefinition of Ben Jonsons genius, I should beinclined to call him a poet of the understandingand of judgment, in whom vast erudition wascombined with rarely acute faculties for studyingand reproducing the distinctive marks of personalcharacter, and who had overlaid a lively imagina-tive faculty with deliberately conceived ideals ofthe literar
The dramatic works and lyrics of Ben Jonson [selected] With an essay, biographical and critical . fJonsons critical essays perished in a fire whichdestroyed his library at some uncertain datebetween 1619 and 1625. If I were bound to offer in one sentence adefinition of Ben Jonsons genius, I should beinclined to call him a poet of the understandingand of judgment, in whom vast erudition wascombined with rarely acute faculties for studyingand reproducing the distinctive marks of personalcharacter, and who had overlaid a lively imagina-tive faculty with deliberately conceived ideals ofthe literary art. Fire of the imagination and fancysmouldered in the man without emerging intoluminosity. He struggled under the weight of hisencumbered memory ; and haughtily submitted tothe fetters of a self-prescribed rule. Yet it wasthis central heat of a naturally poetic temperamentwhich gave warmth and glow to his best work,even when we recognise it to be clumsy, and leelbound to acknowledge that it bears the aspectrather of constructive ability than of genial inspira-tion. JOHN ADDINGTON Epicoene; or, tbc SilentMoman* DRAMATIS PERSONS Morose, a gentleman that loves no Dauphine Eugenie, a Knight, his Clerimont, a Gentleman, his , another John Daw, a Amorous La-Foole, a Knight Otter, a Land and Sea Captain,Cutbeard, a , one o/Moroses Page to Clerimont. Epicoene, supposed the Silent Haughty, \ Ladies Lady Centaure, - Collegi- Mistress Dol. Mavis, ) Otter, the \ Captains Wife. ( Pre- Mistress Trusty, Lady t tenders Haughtys Woman. ) Pages, Servants, etc. Scene—London.
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