Download or read book Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson written by Richard S. Peterson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original publication of Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson in 1981 led to a reinterpretation of the Jonson's poems and philosophy; the resulting portrait of Jonson served as a corrective to earlier views based primarily on the satiric poems and plays. This second edition of a now-classic text makes Peterson's important scholarship available to a new generation of scholars.