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Art and Culture
The debate between art and nature was huge in Shakespeare and Jonson's day. And it's easy to see why. The disparity between socioeconomic classes in the 1600s was massive, and so it was only natural that people would desperately want to understand why other people were more talented and more successful than they were. In an author's case, it might be a matter of understanding why someone's work was more popular than yours, but whatever the reason, Jonson seems very obviously preoccupied with just how hard Shakespeare had to try to achieve his fame and renown in "To the Memory of My Beloved."
Jonson has equal respect for natural as well as nurtured talents for poetry.
Jonson believed Shakespeare's work was more the result of a natural gift than it was of any skill or craft.
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