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Article: The Women of Ben Jonson's Poetry: Female Representations in the Non-Dramatic Verse.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 1997
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This is not a scholarly book. Many of its errors would have been spared had it been. In her introduction, Professor Smith mentions Robert C. Evans and Richard S. Peterson. If only she had absorbed even a small portion of the scholarly habits of those two Jonsonians, her book would have been vastly improved. Some examples: she chooses to quote from William B. Hunter's text of Jonson's poems, but she does so in an extraordinarily sloppy way. Taking just the block quotations in chapter one, I find that it is not until the final quotation (number twenty-two) that she gets one completely right, free of lapses in punctuation, spelling, capitals and lower-case letters, italics, and ...
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