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 difficulties of ideal virtue in a far from ideal world, and above all the problems of art itself. Combining a wide-ranging discussion of Jonson s interests with a detailed examination of his major...
While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges ac...
It is true that Mr Kipling is lawless and contemptuous of literary formality; and that whenever he talks of -Art, - as in certain pages of The Light That Failed, he tries to talk as though there were really no such thing. But Mr Kipling's cheerful contempt of all that is pedantic and magisterial in -Art- does not imply that he is innocent of literary discipline. It is true that Mr Kipling is lawless in the sense that all good work is more than a conscious adherence to formula. It is not true in the sense that Mr Kipling is more lawless than Tennyson or Walter Scott. Readers of Mr Kipling's...
It is true that Mr Kipling is lawless and contemptuous of literary formality; and that whenever he talks of -Art, - as in certain pages of The Light T...
