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Robert Graves is one of England's soldier-poets who, since the days of Raleigh and Ben Jonson, have given battle and exploit the lustre which means Empire. Not that Robert Graves likes modern war: his 1914-18 memoirs, Goodbye to All That (1929), were among the most disillusioned records any old soldier ever wrote. But Graves conceded that in an age of scarlet coats, flintlock muskets, brass cannon, war may have been fun, with more glory than gore...
...might have been leaders now. Behind the great Government offices, the Home Office, the Colonial Office, the Treasury, is the heart of our great capital city; it is also historic ground. Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn near here. Elizabeth saw Shakespeare's plays and the masks of Ben Jonson here. Charles I was executed a few yards from where I'm sitting. It's historic ground, and I think today it's probably more deeply sunk in our world's history than ever, because it's the very centre of the hopes of free...
John Milton in L'Allegro is referring to Ben Jonson as a writer of comedy, Jonson's forte. Of Jonson's ten chief works eight are comedies (Every Man in his Humour, Every Man out .of his Humour, Cynthia's Revels, The Poetaster, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fayre); only two are tragedies (Sejanus, Catiline...
...Allegro pictures the cheerful man, who prefers comedy, "Jonson's sock." // Penseroso, on the other hand, pictures the thoughtful man, who prefers tragedy, the buskin. The analogous reference in // Penseroso may be found in lines 97-102: "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage...
...Jonson's learned Sock...