, which
signifies
to make or
feign.
feign.
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems
?
, ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? , a maker, or a feigner: his art, an art of imitation or feigning;
expressing the life of man in fit measure, numbers, and harmony,
according to Aristotle; from the word ? ? ? ? ? ?
, which signifies to make or
feign. Hence he is called a poet, not he which writeth in measure only,
but that feigneth and formeth a fable, and writes things like the truth.
For the fable and fiction is, as it were, the form and soul of any
poetical work or poem.
_What mean_, _you by a Poem_?
_Poema_. --A poem is not alone any work or composition of the poet's in
many or few verses; but even one verse alone sometimes makes a perfect
poem. As when AEneas hangs up and consecrates the arms of Abas with this
inscription:--
"AEneas haec de Danais victoribus arma. " {136a}
And calls it a poem or carmen. Such are those in Martial:--
"Omnia, Castor, emis: sic fiet, ut omnia vendas. " {136b}
And--
"Pauper videri Cinna vult, et est pauper. " {136c}
_Horatius_. --_Lucretius_. --So were Horace's odes called Carmina, his lyric
songs. And Lucretius designs a whole book in his sixth:--
"Quod in primo quoque carmine claret. " {136d}
_Epicum_. --_Dramaticum_.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? , a maker, or a feigner: his art, an art of imitation or feigning;
expressing the life of man in fit measure, numbers, and harmony,
according to Aristotle; from the word ? ? ? ? ? ?
, which signifies to make or
feign. Hence he is called a poet, not he which writeth in measure only,
but that feigneth and formeth a fable, and writes things like the truth.
For the fable and fiction is, as it were, the form and soul of any
poetical work or poem.
_What mean_, _you by a Poem_?
_Poema_. --A poem is not alone any work or composition of the poet's in
many or few verses; but even one verse alone sometimes makes a perfect
poem. As when AEneas hangs up and consecrates the arms of Abas with this
inscription:--
"AEneas haec de Danais victoribus arma. " {136a}
And calls it a poem or carmen. Such are those in Martial:--
"Omnia, Castor, emis: sic fiet, ut omnia vendas. " {136b}
And--
"Pauper videri Cinna vult, et est pauper. " {136c}
_Horatius_. --_Lucretius_. --So were Horace's odes called Carmina, his lyric
songs. And Lucretius designs a whole book in his sixth:--
"Quod in primo quoque carmine claret. " {136d}
_Epicum_. --_Dramaticum_.
