Author: Trimpi, Wesley
Title: Ben Jonson's Poems: A Study of the Plain Style
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, (1969). Reprint. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi,292 pp. Minor rubbing. Small cover spot. Some light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Discoveries: "As Liuy before Salust, Sydney before Donne"; Vives,Bacon & Jonson: The Limitations of the Doctrine of Imitation; The Epistolary Tradition; The Authority of Neo-Latin Scholarship; Poems: Jonson & the Contemporary Rejections of the High & Middle Styles; Jonson & the Native Tradition of the Plain Style; Jonson's Poems in the Classical Genres of the Plain Style; "The Passionate Plainness": Poems in Other Than the Four Genres of the Plain Style;

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Ben Jonson, Poetry, Poetics, Plain Style, , ,