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Article: Tom Lockwood. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age.(Book review)
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- March 22, 2007
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Tom Lockwood. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+257. $85.00.
The conventional wisdom is that Ben Jonson had little cultural or poetic visibility during the Romantic period. The key date often cited is 1776, the retirement of David Garrick, which is usually taken as a watershed in the long slow decline of Jonson's reputation, after which his place in the canon--once so towering--became ever more marginal. Certainly in comparison with Shakespeare, Milton, and Spenser, all of whom had rich afterlives in Romantic literature, Jonson's presence is harder to detect. His humours comedy offered comparatively little to Romantic ...