Envy, Eunoia, and Ethos in Jonson's Poems on Shakespeare and Drayton

[...] my emphasis will not be on explicating what J onson really felt about the subjects of his praise but rather on the way he structures his arguments in order to deal with a facet of his public persona that conflicts with his epideictic purpose. [...] the very length of J onson's attempts to...

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Published inStudies in philology Vol. 106; no. 4; pp. 441 - 455
Main Author Blaine, Marlin E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 01.09.2009
Subjects
Argument structure
Classical rhetoric
Drayton, Michael
Elegies
Envy
Epideictic rhetoric
Friendship
Jonson, Ben (1573-1637)
Literary criticism
Oratory
Personal relationships
Poetic meter
Poetic themes
Poetry
Poets
Praise poetry
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
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Summary:[...] my emphasis will not be on explicating what J onson really felt about the subjects of his praise but rather on the way he structures his arguments in order to deal with a facet of his public persona that conflicts with his epideictic purpose. [...] the very length of J onson's attempts to create a persona with eunoia might in itself arouse suspicion or, perhaps more accurately, remind readers of suspicions that they have already developed about J onson. [...] when the attempt comes from a man who, in more than two decades of public life had developed a reputation for peevishness and egocentrism, it probably has no chance of succeeding.
ISSN:0039-3738
1543-0383
1543-0383
DOI:10.1353/sip.0.0039