SOURCE: "All About Jonson's Poetry," in ELH, Vol. 39, No. 2, June, 1972, pp. 208-37.
In the following essay, Marotti reads Jonson's dramatic verse and masques along with his non-dramatic poetry in order to demonstrate the poet's stylistic virtuosity and his range between the extremes of copiousness and restraint.
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