Year: | 1545 | |
Short description: | Ascham's "Toxophilus" | |
Medium description: | Ascham's "Toxophilus". A book written to defend himself against those who saw his pleasure in archery as a cause for questioning his reputation as a scholar. Praised "as the first learned defence of a pastime, and as a model of English vernacular prose writing in terms of both style and organization of subject matter" (O'Day, 2004) [Cowan gives the year as 1543] | |
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