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Ovid Marston in the Poetaster, is described as the younger son of a gentleman of considerable position. He is dependent on a stipend allowed to him by his father. After having absolved his studies, he is to become an advocate, but secretly he devotes his time to poetry. The father warns him that poverty will be his lot if he does not renounce poetry.
"And then as to the infinite reproduction of the species," adds Science, "is Nature, "'So careful of the single type? But no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone." Patience! the glyptodon and the dodo have been dead for ages. Perhaps in a million years the poetaster also shall pass. Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border. New York: Harper and Brothers.
Another poetaster, Barre, who has served and sung the chiefs of all former factions, received, for an ode of forty lines on Bonaparte's birthday, an office at Milan, worth twenty thousand livres in the year and one hundred napoleons d'or for his travelling expenses.
Therefore one softens down the ugly central fact of donkeyism, recommends study of good models, that writing verse should be an incidental occupation only, not interfering with the hoe, the needle, the lapstone, or the ledger, and, above all that there should be no hurry in printing what is written. Not the least use in all this. The poetaster who has tasted type is done for.
He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Viscount Chaworth, and so wove the first link in a strange association of tragedy and romance: he was a patron of one of those poets who, approved by neither gods nor columns, are remembered by the accident of an accident, and was himself a poetaster, capable of the couplet, My whole ambition only does extend To gain the name of Shipman's faithful friend,
He was a tolerable, and at least an enthusiastic antiquarian, a more than tolerable poetaster; and he had a prodigious budget full of old ballads and songs, which he loved better to teach and I to learn, than all the 'Latin, Greek, geography, astronomy, and the use of the globes, which my poor father had so sedulously bargained for."
Here is question of "administering strong pills" to Jonson; THEN, "What lumps of hard and indigested stuff, Of bitter SATIRISM, of ARROGANCE, Of SELF-LOVE, of DETRACTION, of a black And stinking INSOLENCE should we fetch up!" This "pill" is a reply to Ben's "purge" for the poets in his Poetaster. Oh, the sad old stuff!
Crispinus is the chief character of the play: 'the poetaster. Against him the satire is mainly directed, and for his sake it seems to have been written, for the title runs thus: 'The Poetaster, or His Arraignment. From all the characteristic qualities of Crispinus we draw the conclusion that this figure represented SHAKSPERE.
O Socrates!" Socrates was at last in prison, accused of having seduced the youth, and blasphemed or repudiated the gods of the State. Among the accusers were a young poetaster, Melitos, the tanner Anytos, and the orator Lykon. Socrates made his Apology, and declared that he had always believed on God, and the voice of his conscience, which he called his "demon."
In 'Hamlet, Shakspere brought his own ideal of friendship in the figure of Horatio on the stage, in contrast to the Horace of 'The Poetaster. Jonson was not the man to be edified by the beautiful examples and the nobler words of his gentle adversary, Shakspere, or to alter his sentiments in accordance with them. He rather welcomed every opportunity for a quarrel.
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