Timber: Or Discoveries Made Upon Men And Matter

by Ben Jonson, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (Editor)

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204 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1898

About the author

Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. A house in Dulwich College is named after him.

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Reviews

[Mandy]

This is essentially Jonson's commonplace book; for the most part, he records pithy aphorisms and sometimes expands upon them. I enjoyed his thoughts on Shakespeare and theater in general, though he does reveal himself to be a bit hypocritical.

2 stars is a bit harsh, and that's mostly because the edition I read didn't have any notes or any translations of the Latin. And Jonson likes to show off and use lots of Latin. Timber hasn't received a lot of scholarly attention, but obviously a newer edition would still be significantly better.

[Lisajean]

No discoveries here.

[Oliver Bateman]

an at-times-insight but fairly tedious little commonplace book. a few choice bits worth lifting - that's the point of such books, after all, given that ben has already done the lifting! - and the poems found in my version weren't bad, either (particularly one about the death of his kiddo).

[sologdin]

ben Jonson's opinions on other writers. a useful English renaissance source, but also witty, &c.