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Is it possible to write in rhyme and meter more gracefully and plainly than Ben Jonson (1573-1637) does in "His Excuse for Loving"?
The closing lines of the poem, with the sentence dancing eagerly over and across the ends of the lines, suggest that William Butler Yeats read Jonson closely--and indeed Yeats and Ezra Pound did study Jonson during the months when they shared a cottage in the country.
The tone of Elizabeth comes nearer to the nihilistic relish of Jacobeans such as John Ford and John Webster than to the more sorrowful horror of the Elizabethan dramatists Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
It may seem remarkable that Jonson, who died in 1637, is still submitting poems to magazines.
For Ben Jonson, writing this brilliant poem early in the 17 th century, the opposite is true: The ear is the avenue of the spirit, while the eye is duped by mere seeming.