By David Loewenstein, Janel Mueller
It is a finished background of English literature written in Britain among the Reformation and the recovery. whereas it specializes in England, literary attempt in Scotland and eire can be coated, with occasional references to Wales and eire. This literary historical past via a world workforce of students is vital interpreting for college students and students of 16th- and seventeenth-century English literature, tradition, and background.
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After a good day’s fishing Izaak Walton’s Piscator in 1653 proposed to lead the highly respectable Viator ‘to an honest alehouse where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windowes and twenty ballads stuck about the wall’, a collection which might even have included ‘A Looking Glasse for the Soule Worth to be Hung Up in Every Householde in the Kingdom and to be Looked at Daily’, or ‘A Right Godly and Christian ABC Shewing the Duty of Every Degree’,70 or ‘A Christian Belief Concerning Bishops’ or ‘A Table Pointing Out Such Places of Scripture .
92–7. 7 H. Bullinger, The Christian State of Matrimonie, trans. M. Coverdale (London, 1541), fol. lix v. R. C[leaver], A Godlie Forme of Householde Gouvernement (London, 1598), p. 260. W. Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (London, 1622), p. 542. Sermons of John Donne, ed. G. R. Potter and E. M. Simpson, 10 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953–62), 4:100. 8 Right at the end of the century, the reading ability of the children entering the school at Aldenham in Hertfordshire was noted.
At thirteen he was both writing Greek verse of his own and surveying land by himself. But he added that his father taught him much at home until he was ten or eleven, as well as taking him out of school to help with surveying from twelve to fourteen. ‘However, the knowledge he had gained in the mathematics did very well recompense’ this loss. So we do not know to what extent Gregory King learnt 23 The brass casting-counters used in England were largely made in Nuremberg by two firms, Schultes and Krauwinckel, who manufactured counters specifically for school use.