Article: Marvell and Milton's literary friendship reconsidered.(Andrew Marvell, )(Critical essay)

Harold Bloom's theory of the anxiety of influence need not be swallowed whole in order to suspect that even the most apparently warm of literary friendships are often charged with something more than straightforward mutual admiration. (1) Ben Jonson's tribute to Shakespeare--one of the more audacious pieces of poetic-canon making in the English language--is nevertheless laced with Jonson's desire to, as it were, put Shakespeare in his place. Jonson puts himself and, by extension, his own folio of Works before Shakespeare and seems to take a sly swipe at his great theatrical rival when he archly worries that he should "not give nature all" in his assessment. (2) John ...






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