The Poetaster: Or, His Arraignment - Ben Jonson - Boeken - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781503050709 - 31 oktober 2014
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The Poetaster: Or, His Arraignment

Ben Jonson

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The Poetaster: Or, His Arraignment

THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, 'having been cast into prison and forfeited.' He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade. As a youth he attracted the attention of the famous antiquary, William Camden, then usher at Westminster School, and there the poet laid the solid foundations of his classical learning. Jonson always held Camden in veneration, acknowledging that to him he owed, 'All that I am in arts, all that I know.'

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 31 oktober 2014
ISBN13 9781503050709
Uitgevers CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Pagina's 236
Afmetingen 15 × 152 × 229 mm   ·   353 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  

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