+ Bookm 51:303 My ’20 1200w N Y Times p29 O 17 ’20 80w
“This book is disappointing. The notes indicate that the author possesses minute scholarship, but the text does not indicate that he possesses spiritual insight.”
− + Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 130w + Spec 124:317 Mr 6 ’20 170w
“It is designed for the general reader rather than for the scholar, and throughout it maintains an allusiveness to general literature and history which will make it specially attractive to a wide circle of readers.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p347 Je 3 ’20 700w
SMITH, GEORGE GREGORY. Ben Jonson. *$1.25 Macmillan
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“After many years Ben Jonson has been admitted to the sacred circle of English men of letters, that series of little critical biographies now numbering more than sixty names. In Mr Smith’s belated biography we have in his two opening chapters a recital of about all that is known of the circumstances of Jonson’s life, the rest of the book being given to a study of his literary work, with chapters on ‘literary conscience,’ the comedies, masques, tragedies and poems, and a final survey of his influence.”—Boston Transcript
Boston Transcript p10 F 7 ’20 1450w