Stoicism and plain style in Ben Jonson: An analysis of some of his verse epistles
Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: Ben Jonson has been called the first thoroughly classical poet in English literature. The aim of this paper is to show the sources of his classicism and determine the influence that his classical reading exerted on his ideas concerning style and poetry in general. Jonson' s poetics will be traced back to the first theorists of the classical plain style and their followers among the European humanists. The tradition of the English plain style will be taken into consideration, as well as the relationship between plain style and the Stoic revival of the sixteenth century. The final part of this paper will consist of an analysis of some of his poems which in part reflect the theories and ideas studied in the previous sections.
Author: José María Pérez Fernández
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W147382908