Main entry:

Johnson, A. W. (Anthony W.)

Title & Author:

Ben Jonson : poetry and architecture / A.W. Johnson.

Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Description:

xviii, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Oxford English monographs

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-261) and index.
pt. 1. Sources. 1. Jonson and the Vitruvian Aesthetic. 2. Jonson, Jones, and Vitruvian Romance. 3. Colonna and the Early Masques -- pt. 2. Architectonic Patterns in the Encomiastic Poetry. 4. Centred Form and the Poetry of Praise -- pt. 3. Vitruvianism and the Early Masques. 5. 'Those curious Squares, and Rounds': Number and Structure in the Masques. 1605-1608. 6. The Marriage Masques 1606-1608. 7. The Masque of Queens, 1609. 8. Structural Change in the Masque, 1610-1616 -- APP. I: The Numerical Structuring of Jonson's Early Masques -- APP. II: Jonson, Jones, and the Temple of Solomon.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Using annotated architectural volumes surviving from Jonson's library as well as his published works, A.W. Johnson surveys the evidence for Jonson's knowledge of, and theoretical agreement with, the architectural principles enunciated in the De architectura libri decem of the Roman architect Vitruvius. He goes on to examine Jonson's encomiastic poetry and the early masques in the light of the latter's interest in architecture, finding in them centred and harmonically proportioned forms which suggest a much closer proximity between Jonson's and Inigo Jones's aesthetic in the early years of the Jacobean period than has formerly been supposed. This original and ambitious study argues that Jonson employed a form of literary Vitruvianism which was a potent force in the shaping of the early masques of his Catholic period, and was to remain an active influence on poetic composition throughout the succeeding century.

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ISBN:

0198117590 (acid-free paper)
9780198117599 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 Knowledge and learning.
Vitruvius Pollio Influence.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
Vitruvius Pollio.
Vitruvius ca. v1. Jh. De architectura
Jones, Inigo 1573-1652
Jonson, Ben 1572-1637
Jonson, Ben, (1573?-1637) Critique et interprétation.
Jonson, Ben, (1573?-1637) Et l'architecture.
Vitruve, (0090?-0020? av. J.-C.) Influence.
Jonson, Ben.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 Knowledge Architecture.
Architecture and literature History 17th century.
English literature Italian influences.
Aesthetics, Modern 17th century.
Aesthetics, British.
Poetics History 17th century.
Architecture et littérature Histoire 17e siècle.
Esthétique 17e siècle.
Esthétique britannique.
Poétique Histoire 17e siècle.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Architecture.
Architecture and literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Poetics.
Architektur
Literatur
Ästhetik
Lyrik
Gebouwen.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Architecture et littérature 17e siècle.
Rhetoric 1500-1800.
English drama

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Oxford English monographs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121235
Call No.: ID PR2642.A62 J6; ID:95-B2248
Status: Available