SOURCE: "The Tone of Ben Jonson's Poetry," in Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets: Authoritative Texts, Criticism, edited by Hugh MacLean, W. W. Norton & Company, 1974, pp. 479–96.
In the following essay, Walton characterizes Jonson's poetry as a model of civility, exhibiting both its intellectual and moral values.
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