@inbook{393f8539026b414bb046a1491e22c609,
title = "Ben Jonson",
abstract = "This chapter considers the making of Ben Jonson{\textquoteright}s poetry, and the meanings that it creates for communities of readers. Beginning with Jonson{\textquoteright}s statement to the Scottish poet, William Drummond of Hawthorden, {\textquoteleft}That he wrote all his first in prose{\textquoteright}, this chapter considers the influence of Jonson{\textquoteright}s education on his writing and sees in the ideal blend of instruction and pleasure that he found at Westminster School with William Camden a model for the societies imagined and created in his poetry. Reading examples from the three major collections of Jonson{\textquoteright}s poetry—his Epigrams (1612), The Forest (1616), and The Underwood (posthumous, 1640)—the chapter ends with a consideration of Jonson{\textquoteright}s influence on later generations of poets, and on their conception of poetry and poetic history. ",
keywords = "Ben Jonson, poetic form, poetic technique, prose education, Epigrams, The Forest, The Underwood, poetic influence",
author = "Tom Lockwood",
year = "2024",
month = aug,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1093/9780198930259.003.0031",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780198852803",
series = "Oxford History of Poetry in English",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "353--366",
editor = "Knoppers, \{Laura L.\}",
booktitle = "The Oxford History of Poetry in English",
address = "United Kingdom",
}