SOURCE: "The Poetry of Ben Jonson" in Essays in Criticism, Vol. 18, No. 1, January, 1968, pp. 18-31.
In the following essay, Parfitt interprets Jonson's poems in light of the chief functions of his best verse, "energy, assuredness, and rhythmical alertness, " contrasting their tendency to simplify and exaggerate.
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