{"id":99871,"date":"2016-06-30T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=99871"},"modified":"2016-07-20T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T16:03:19","slug":"the-whole-rigmarole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/30\/the-whole-rigmarole\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Rigmarole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Jonson bares all.<\/em><\/p>\n

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From left: Ben Jonson, William Drummond.<\/p><\/div>\n

Pretty soon it will have been four hundred\u00a0years since Ben Jonson (1572\u20131637) walked from London to Edinburgh. I don\u2019t know the whole story. I know he stayed at some length with William Drummond of Hawthornden, a few miles south of Edinburgh. Jonson was around forty-seven at the time; Drummond was around thirty-four.<\/p>\n

Both of these guys were poets, were into languages, bought a lot of books. Jonson was of course right in the middle of things in London. He knew Shakespeare, knew Donne. Drummond, meanwhile, had money.<\/p>\n

People still read Jonson, with how much love I don\u2019t know. There are a number of famous lines. \u201cDrink to me only with thine eyes.\u201d \u201cThough thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.\u201d Drummond got a boost with Palgrave\u2019s Golden Treasury <\/em>(1861), eight items to Jonson\u2019s three. Still, these days, if you love Drummond\u2019s poetry (I do) you pretty much feel you have him all to yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But to come to the point. In 1618, Jonson stayed with Drummond in Scotland. Apparently he talked Drummond\u2019s ear off. It seems that every night, after Jonson had passed out (I\u2019m speculating here), Drummond tiptoed to his own room and, as a sort of revenge (still speculating), wrote down, in the form of a rigmarole, everything his guest had said. To give you an idea of how it comes off, I\u2019ll quote the third section:<\/p>\n

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His censure of the English poets was this: that Sidney did not keep a decorum in making everyone speak as well as himself.
Spenser\u2019s stanzas pleased him not, nor his matter, the meaning of which allegory he had delivered in papers to Sir Walter Raleigh.
Samuel Daniel was a good honest man, had no children, but no poet.
That Michael Drayton\u2019s Poly-O<\/em>[l<\/em>]bion<\/em>, if [he] had performed what he promised to write, the deeds of all the worthies, had been excellent. His long verses pleased him not.
That Sylvester\u2019s translation of Du Bartas was not well done, and that he wrote his verse before it ere he understood to confer. Nor that of Fairfax his.
That the translations of Homer and Virgil in long Alexandrines were but prose.
That John Harington\u2019s Ariosto under all translations was the worst. That when Sir John Harington desired him to tell the truth of his epigrams, he answered him that he loved not the truth, for they were narrations, and not epigrams.
That Warner, since the king\u2019s coming to England, [h]ad marred all his Albion\u2019s England.
<\/em>That Donne\u2019s Anniversary <\/em>was profane and full of blasphemies.
That he told Mr Donne, if it had been written of the Virgin Mary it had been something; to which he answered that he described the idea of a woman, and not as she was.
That Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging.
That Shakespeare wanted art.
That Sharpham, Day, Dekker, were all rogues, and that Minsheu was\u00a0one.
That Abraham Fraunce in his English hexameters was a fool.
That next himself only Fletcher and Chapman could make a masque.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This particular run of \u201cthats\u201d centers on Jonson\u2019s evaluations of his contemporaries, but there are other sections devoted to Jonson\u2019s \u201cjests and apothegms,\u201d Jonson\u2019s personal history, Jonson\u2019s preferences among the ancients\u2014and a great deal of straight-up gossip. There are nineteen sections total. Here is section 11:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>His acquaintance and behavior with poets living with him. \u2028
Daniel was at jealousies with him. \u2028
Drayton feared him, and he esteemed not of him. \u2028
That Francis Beaumont loved too much himself and his own verses.
Th[a]t S[i]r John Roe loved him; and when they two were ushered by my Lord Suffolk from a masque, Roe wrote a moral epistle to him which began \u201cThat next to plays, the court and the state were the best. God threateneth kings, kings lords, and lords do us.\u201d
He beat Marston, and took his pistol from him.
Sir W. Alexander was not half kind unto him, and neglected him, because a friend to Drayton.
That Sir R. Ayton loved him dearly.
Ned Field was his scholar, and he had read to him the satires of Horace, and some epigrams of Martial.
That Markham, who added his English Arcadia<\/em>, was not of the number of the faithful, i.[e.,] poets, and but a base fellow.
That such were Day and Middleton. \u2028
That Chapman and Fletcher were loved of him. \u2028
Overbury was first his friend, then turned his mortal enemy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, partly I am writing this post in hopes that I will interest readers of The Paris Review Daily <\/em>in the \u201cConversations with Drummond\u201d itself, pure and simple. But I also want to say something about genre.<\/p>\n

Drummond didn\u2019t write up these \u201cinformations and manners\u201d for publication. As I hinted earlier, I believe he wrote them so that he could fix in place, for his own study, the mentality of a person he considered a fascinating\u2014and possibly even quite wonderful\u2014monster of self-regard.<\/p>\n

The effect of the piece, read all at once, is exhilarating. It\u2019s quite like reading a book of interviews with V.\u2009S. Naipaul. Three quarters of the world\u2019s literature is dismissed with mandarin contempt, and yet the unmistakable love of good writing is everywhere on display. Also there is terrific speed, because reason-giving is kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n

The genre is rigmarole, in particular the sort of rigmarole dedicated to opinion and complaint. Another famous example of the form is the Declaration of Independence\u2014which is also strangely exhilarating to read. (It retains its power even in the form of a delicious parody by H.\u2009L. Mencken: \u201cThe Declaration of Independence in American<\/a>.\u201d) A much less famous example, but well worth your time, is the \u201cBaines Note<\/a>\u201d: a legal document, but really a rigmarole of accusations (atheism, pederasty) against Christopher Marlowe, from 1593. You can find it in the back of the Everyman edition of Marlowe\u2019s poems and plays.<\/p>\n

I am going to propose: The rigmarole is truly underexploited. Everyone should write a \u201cConversations with Drummond\u201d about themselves and about every opinion-spouting person they know. For the historical record. For revenge. For the children. Especially <\/em>if you\u2019re well-known, or right in the middle of the action, or both.<\/p>\n

A straightforward index\u2014bold, clear, rude\u2014of everything you really think. A straightforward index\u2014bold, unintelligent, wrong\u2014of everything your best friend thinks. All your best friends. Let brother Drummond show the way.<\/p>\n

Anthony Madrid\u00a0lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in <\/em>Best American Poetry 2013,\u00a0<\/em>Boston Review, <\/em>Fence, <\/em>Harvard Review, <\/em>Lana Turner,<\/em> LIT,<\/em> and<\/em> Poetry. His first book is called<\/em> I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say\u00a0<\/i>(Canarium Books, 2012).\u00a0He is a correspondent for the\u00a0<\/em>Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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