How The Complete Poems drew on The Complete Poems
A documented line of influence: Andrew Marvell demonstrably engaged Ben Jonson’s work. The commentary below is Gröblé’s, verbatim from each work’s page.
The source
The Complete Poems
Ben Jonson · 1616
PoetsThe influenced
The Complete Poems
Andrew Marvell · 1681
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On The Complete Poems’s page
- Marvell writes in Jonson's shadow: "Upon Appleton House" is modeled on Jonson's "To Penshurst," the country-house poem that set the form
- The classical discipline behind Marvell's polish — the logic, the order, the restraint — is the legacy of the "Tribe of Ben"
- Read Jonson first and Marvell's estate poem reads as the answer to it: same genre, more wit and strangeness layered on the inherited frame
On The Complete Poems’s page
- Jonson founded the "Tribe of Ben" — the disciples who took his classical discipline as a model — and Marvell was among the inheritors
- "To Penshurst," the poem that invented the English country-house genre, is the direct template for Marvell's "Upon Appleton House"
- Marvell carried over Jonson's logic, order, and classical restraint and built his own estate poem on that frame