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Other works[edit]
Epigrams (1612)
The Forest (1616), including To Penshurst
On My First Sonne (1616), elegy
A Discourse of Love (1618)
Barclay's Argenis, translated by Jonson (1623)
The Execration against Vulcan (1640)
Horace's Art of Poetry, translated by Jonson (1640), with a commendatory verse by Edward Herbert
Underwood (1640)
English Grammar (1640)
Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion of the times, a commonplace book
To Celia (Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes), poem
It is in Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries... that he famously quipped on the manner in which language became a measure of the speaker or writer:
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech. Nay, it is likened to a man; and as we consider feature and composition in a man, so words in language; in the greatness, aptness, sound structure, and harmony of it.
— Ben Jonson, 1640 (posthumous)[56]
As with other English Renaissance dramatists, a portion of Ben Jonson's literary output has not survived. In addition to The Isle of Dogs (1597), the records suggest these lost plays as wholly or partially Jonson's work: Richard Crookback (1602); Hot Anger Soon Cold (1598), with Porter and Henry Chettle; Page of Plymouth (1599), with Dekker; and Robert II, King of Scots (1599), with Chettle and Dekker. Several of Jonson's masques and entertainments also are not extant: The Entertainment at Merchant Taylors (1607); The Entertainment at Salisbury House for James I (1608); and The May Lord (1613–19).
Finally, there are questionable or borderline attributions. Jonson may have had a hand in Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, a play in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. The comedy The Widow was printed in 1652 as the work of Thomas Middleton, Fletcher and Jonson, though scholars have been intensely sceptical about Jonson's presence in the play. A few attributions of anonymous plays, such as The London Prodigal, have been ventured by individual researchers, but have met with cool responses.[57]
Notes[edit]
^ Jonson's claim is interesting, since early printings of Shakespeare's work suggest that he tended to start a scene before giving up and trying again. His failure to cross the original attempts out left his printers unsure what needed to be deleted, though also allowed an insight into his creative process.[46]
Citations[edit]
Bednarz, James P. (2001), Shakespeare and the Poets' War, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-2311-2243-6.
Bentley, G. E. (1945), Shakespeare and Jonson: Their Reputations in the Seventeenth Century Compared, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-2260-4269-5.
Bush, Douglas (1945), English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600–1660, Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Butler, Martin (Summer 1993). "Jonson's Folio and the Politics of Patronage". Criticism. Wayne State University Press. 35 (3): 377–90.
Chute, Marchette. Ben Jonson of Westminster. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1953
Doran, Madeline. Endeavors of Art. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1954
Donaldson, Ian (2011). Ben Jonson: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 181–2. ISBN 9780198129769. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
Eccles, Mark. "Jonson's Marriage." Review of English Studies 12 (1936)
Eliot, T.S. "Ben Jonson." The Sacred Wood. London: Methuen, 1920
Jonson, Ben. Discoveries 1641, ed. G. B. Harrison. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966
Jonson, Ben, David M. Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. 2012. The Cambridge edition of the works of Ben Jonson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Knights, L. C. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson. London: Chatto and Windus, 1968
Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith. The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1975
MacLean, Hugh, editor. Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets. New York: Norton Press, 1974
Ceri Sullivan, The Rhetoric of Credit. Merchants in Early Modern Writing (Madison/London: Associated University Press, 2002)
Teague, Frances. "Ben Jonson and the Gunpowder Plot." Ben Jonson Journal 5 (1998). pp. 249–52
Thorndike, Ashley. "Ben Jonson." The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. New York: Putnam, 1907–1921
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