1st Edition

Ben Jonson His Vision and His Art

By Alexander Leggatt Copyright 1981
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges across the genres to explore Jonson’s vision as a whole. The author points to the inner connections that make of the rich variety of Jonson’s writing a single coherent body of work. We see Jonson exploring the relations between culture and society, the... Read more

Acknowledgements;  A Note on the Text;  Preface;  1. False Creations  2. The Dead Sea of Life  3. Images of Society  4. Virtue’s Labyrinth  5. Judgement and Transformation  6. The Poet as Character  7. Art and its Context;  Conclusion;  Notes;  Index

Biography

Alexander Leggatt