Renaissance Quarterly, September 22nd, 1997
A.W. Johnson's book is in the honorable tradition of Sister Arts studies, and it is a free representative of the genre. He presents convincing evidence of the importance of architecture as subject and as metaphor in Jonson's work, and shows (chiefly by counting lines, a crude but effective method) that many of Jonson's masques have numerical structures and proportions which mime their themes. Professor Johnson begins by studying the annotations in the many architectural and mathematical books that Jonson owned, demonstrating clearly the poet's intimate and technical knowledge of those subject...
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