As many critics have noted, Ben Jonson’s influential country house poem ‘To Penshurst’ concludes with an allusion to Spenser. Jonson praises the Sidney estate in comparison to architecturally grander, more decorative prodigy houses, which he disparages as ‘proud, ambitious heaps’. The words recall the phrase Spenser uses to sum up his description of the House of Pride: ‘It was a goodly heape for to behould’. Read more…
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