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- Title
Ben Jonson's 'A Vision of Beauty'
- Authors
Everett, Barbara
- Abstract
The article focuses on the literary style of poet Ben Jonson with reference to his poem "A Vision of Beauty." Jonson's short poems are both peculiarly effective and peculiarly his own. In the shortest space Jonson gives a sense of diverse worlds or experiences, which are harmonized into the single sentence or unit of thought, of the first stanza. The beauty that he describes is impersonal, of a purity and abstraction that approaches the geometric. The sensuous pleasure of commonest objects and experiences is refined to its essential beauty.
- Subjects
LITERARY style; JONSON, Ben, ca. 1573-1637; VISION of Beauty, A (Poem); POETRY (Literary form); POETS; STANZAS
- Publication
Critical Quarterly, 1959, Vol 1, Issue 3, p238
- ISSN
0011-1562
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8705.1959.tb01389.x