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Article: Horatian satire in Jonson's "On the Famous Voyage".(English poet Ben Johnson)(Critical Essay)
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- Criticism
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- January 1, 2002
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THE FINAL POEM in Ben Jonson's single book of Epigrammes (c. 1612), "On the Famous Voyage" has presented readers with special problems relative to its form, context, and subject-matter. On the formal level, its massive length (at 196 lines, it is over four times as long as the second-largest poem in the collection) and mock-heroic narrative render questionable its presence within a volume of epigrams. (1) On the contextual level, its placement at the end of the Epigrammes lends it a peculiar prominence which is further reinforced by its general failure to conform to the alternating encomiastic and condemnatory structure of the poems that precede it. (2) And on the level ...
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