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ENG LYRIC POETRY.pdf - STIBA Malang

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BEN JONSON AND THE ART OF INCLUSION<br />

could serve Jonson as a hieroglyph for some other, greater reality. The<br />

fascination lies, rather, in the new authority Jonson gave to poetry in the early<br />

seventeenth century. No longer the exclusive property of either the rich or the<br />

inspired, of either a Sidney or a Spenser, it belonged also to the individual<br />

willing to “strike the second heat/Upon the muses’ anvil” and claim the work<br />

as his own.<br />

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