Chapter 3. Vir bonus, dicendi peritus

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Tabula gratulatoria xi
5. Introducing Anthony W. Johnson 1
6. Part I. The seventeenth century
7. Chapter 1. Ben Jonson’s Epigram 101, “Inviting a Friend to Supper” 25
8. Chapter 2. Passing the test with Polymachaeroplacides 59
9. Chapter 3. Vir bonus, dicendi peritus 81
10. Chapter 4. John Sheffield’s Essay upon Poetry 103
11. Part II. Time-travel
12. Chapter 5. “Thou art the unanswered question” 131
13. Chapter 6. “Sohrab and Rustum” 147
14. Chapter 7. The many-sided comedy of George Gissing’s The Nether World 173
15. Part III. The present
16. Chapter 8. “River Man” and “Pink Moon” 199
17. Chapter 9. The perfection of Morten Søkilde’s extended-form poetry 209
18. Chapter 10. iPhone cinema and Tangerine 223
19. Chapter 11. Delay 243
20. Bibliography 249
21. Index 267