A Study of Ben Jonson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780548016794
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: IF poets may be divided into two exhaustive but not exclusive classes,-the gods of harmony and creation, the giants of energy and invention,-the supremacy of Shakespeare among the gods of English verse is not more unquestionable than the supremacy of Jonson among its giants.