Jonson called these notes his Sylva, a wood of things and thoughts: brief prose reflections on what a poet is, how a fable should be shaped, how children should be taught, and how writers and statesmen go wrong. Henry Morley’s edition adds a group of the poems, among them the epitaphs on his first son and daughter and “Inviting a Friend to Supper”.
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