City Limits: Nashe's ‘Choise of Valentines’ and Jonson's ‘Famous Voyage’

Autor:	Katherine Duncan-Jones
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Literature Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory Poetry business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Tribute Human sexuality Art Language and Linguistics River thames Pleasure business Parallels media_common
Zdroj:	The Review of English Studies. 56:247-262
ISSN:	1471-6968 0034-6551
DOI:	10.1093/res/hgi051
Popis:	Written originally as a tribute to John Carey, this article is concerned with literary and personal relations between Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson and with generic parallels and contrasts between two of their poems. Both poems, Nashe's 'Choise of Valentines' and Jonson's 'The Famous Voyage', concern short, unsavoury, adventurous journeys in or near the City of London. Both are characterized by 'liquid' imagery appropriate to the River Thames. But while Nashe's pornographic yet lyrical poem celebrates female sexuality and laments the transience of pleasure, Jonson's mock-heroic 'Voyage' explores the filth and 'hot air' of the City of London.
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