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The Cambridge Quarterly 1991 XX(2):138-154; doi:10.1093/camqtly/XX.2.138
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Ben Jonson's Best Piece of Poetry1

David Hopkins and Tom Mason

IMAGINATION, MEMORY AND JUDGEMENT are sitting in the darkness of a Mind The space around them appears to be infinite. From time to time, one or other Faculty will rise from her seat, as if intending to take a stroll But she will not get far Although they do not know it, the Faculties of the Mind are confined to a very small circumference, and bound, irrevocably, each to each Behind them, somewhere in the gloom, is a great gate, resolutely shut Before them is a large folio at which they peer for some time in silence, Judgement and Memory with attention, Imagination intermittently - if at all

1An extract from a book intended as an introduction to poetry for young people. The argument is presented as a fiction in which the soul of all future poets is instructed in the history and arts of poetry by the Muse. This passage occurs at the moment when the Poet is shown the interior workings of a mind engaging with a piece of verse. In this mind are three warring Faculties, demigoddesses and sisters, Memory, Judgement and Imagination.


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