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I particularly liked 'Parnassus Biceps'. These anthologies were predominantly Royalist and wordly in tone, apart from Ben Jonson most of the names best known today from the period appeared infrequently, while Taylor the Water-Poet and the epigrammatic odd-ball Parson Thomas Bastard were apparently star turns too ( so it wasn't all versifying gallants) On 11 July 2012 10:00, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > priceless, and totally new to me… > Having found my way via google to the Folger I see someone there expects > it to be used in high schools: and three teachers say how: > > Teacher Ideas > > Gina Savino / Smithtown High School, Smithtown, NY / English > > Read the exchange between Phoebe and Silvius, 5.2.87-77 inAs You Like It. > Next, read page 77 in Gough's text where he lists common questions and > answers about courtship and love. Discuss the similarities you find. Does > this idea hold true today? Why or why not? Read Romeo's speech, 1.5.51-60 > in Romeo and Juliet and compare this to Gough's poem on page 87. Discuss > the striking similarities. Click here to see Gina Savino's full-length > lesson plan using this primary source. > > Amanda Parker / East Chapel High School, Chapel Hill, NC / English > > As a pre-writing or journal writing activity, ask students to describe > their perfect mate. Use this as a springboard for a discussion about their > twenty-first century ideals about love. Introduce and read the primary > source text as a class, and discuss how the ideas of love have changed > since the sixteenth century. > > Jennifer Breen / Brookline High School, Brookline, MA / English > > Using contemporary R&B, rock lyrics, or any other appropriate genre, have > students create a twenty-first century "Lexicon of Love". > > On 11/07/2012, at 4:35 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > > > * 1640-1682* > > > > > > The Academy of Complements Wits Recreations > > > > The Card of Courtship The Harmony of the Muses > > > > Wits Interpreter The Marrow of Complements > > > > Musarum Delicić Wit and Drollery > > > > Parnassus Biceps Sportive Wit Choyce Drollery > > > > The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence Wit Restor'd > > > > J. Cleaveland Revived Le Prince d'Amour > > > > An Antidote Against Melancholy Folly in Print > > > > The New Academy of Complements > > > > A Jovial Garland Oxford Drollery Westminster Drollery > > > > Covent Garden Drollery New Court-Songs Windsor Drollery > > > > Holborn Drollery London Drollery > > > > Wit at a Venture A New Collection > > > > A Perfect Collection of the Several Songs now in Mode > > > > Mock Songs and Joking Poems > > > > The Wits Academy The Last and Best Edition of New Songs > > > > Grammatical Drollery Wit and Mirth > > > > Methinks the Poor Town has been troubled too long > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > David Joseph Bircumshaw > > ** > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com > -- David Joseph Bircumshaw ** Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com