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DESIRE, DENIAL, AND DESIGN IN BEN JONSON'S NON-DRAMATIC POETRY (JONSON BEN, POETRY).
註釋his bricklayer stepfather. In similar fashion, his imitators (the Sons of Ben) provide the posterity his children's deaths had denied him. This exclusively male familial framework refuses admittance to the conventional female Muse, and poetry itself becomes a self-generated progeny. In assigning fraternal roles to colleagues and patrons, however, the poet is less successful. Professional rivalries indeed resemble sibling rivalries as Jonson asserts his preeminence in the midst of praise; but addresses