Excerpt from Ben Jonson Als Kritiker: Inaugural-Dissertation

Qber fid) mit ber Rtitif Ben Sonfnn's beicbiiftigt, with Tn!) 001: bent Beginn feiner flrbeit bariiber Siecbenfcbaft ablegen miiiien, mie er fid) 311 bee sdicbteré Conversations with Drum mond 311 fteiien but. 5911 tie in benfeen fiber zeitgenfiififcbe c'bcbriftftefler auégefprocbenen qinfiten 0ft mit benjenigen in frafient qbiberfprucb fteben, melcbe man in ten an biefelben ge richteten Giebicbten 0ber (fipigrannnen finbet, fo baben fie!) mancbe Rommentatoren veranlafit gefeben, ben qbert bet Conversations ale eineé 5d0f11n1entes, 0116 melcbem 1011 Die mabren finfidfien 80nf0n'§ enlnebtnen ffinnten, 511 Ieugnen. 60 fagt Cifiorb in bet $130rrebe feiner fluegabe bet qberfe Sonfon'é (i p. It is much to be lamented that our author did not fall into kindly hands. His learning, his judgment, his love of anecdote, his extensive acquaintance with the poets, statesmen, and eminent characters of the stage, of wohm he talked without reserve, would have rendered his conversations, had they been recorded with such a decent respect for the characters of the living as courtesy demanded, the most valuable body of contem, porary criticism that ever appeared, Such was not Drummond's object. He only sought to injure the man whom he had decoyed under his roof. Sdie meiften baben.' hie Con versations a1§ ein bl0fie6 éljiacbmerf eineb angeicben 8-1e11nhe3 Sonfon'é hargefielit. 811m fliemeife f111)rten fie hie flbatfacbe an, hafi sdrnmm0nh hie Conversations erfi nacl) hes wicbters I0he 0erhffentlicbt bat. Filter mfirhen hann hie fritiicben fliemerfnngen in henielben nicbt anéfnbrlicber fein? Sn her Cefialt, in mecer mir fie hefigen, tragen fie has untrnglicbe Merfmal, hab iehe 00n ihnen anfge5eicbnet murhe, nacbhem hie be5i'1g11cbe unterbaltnng fiattgefunhen bane. T 0errai ficf) hie cfs-iiicbtigfeit her 211115eicbn11ng hard) Srrtfimer, 10e1d)e batten 0ermiehen 10erhen ffinnen, menn hie Conversations ein forgfaltig auége arbeiteteé zserf mitten. 60 mirh 5. '13. The Faithful Shepherdess hen sdicb'tern, Flesher and Beaumont 5ngefcbrieben (g.-c. III oh10a her Iettere feinen ateil haran bane, 10a? Snnfnn ge= 101181 baben mufi. (2391. F. (R)ehicbt To Mr. John Fletcher upon his Faithful Shepherdess g.-c. III Gin edzann, her feinen greunh her 6d;mc'ibfi1cbt 0erhacbtigen 100111e, mare gemifi iorgfiiltiger 511 siiierte gegangen. Slbiirhe ferner Qrumm0nh has firenge nnh abfprecbenhe llrteii Sonion's fiber feine, wrnmmnnh's, flierie niehergefcbrieben baben? 21321111 mirh alio hen einieitig 0erhammenhen 6tanhpnnit her Rritifer nicbt teiien fhnnen, ionhcrn am befien than, in iehem ein5einen 510eife111aften galle hie 81age_nacb her (sscbtbeit 511 erfirtern.

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