Author:Jonson, Ben

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Volpone

By: Jonson, Ben

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W W NORTON & CO: September 2015

Seller ID: 302534

ISBN: 039390010X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Complete Poems

By: Jonson, Ben

Price: $6.00

Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: May 2014

Seller ID: 275162

ISBN: 0140422773

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

His adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urbane elegance of his verse forms he contrived a directness and energy of statement clearly related to colloquial speech, and this characteristic fusion of restraint and vitality gave to the seventeenth-century lyric its most distinctive quality. As well as the entire body of Jonson's non-dramatic verse, extensively annotated, this edition contains many of the songs from his plays and masques and his translation of 'Horace, of the Art of Poetry'. His 'Conv...
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