Introduction

In Occasionem: Whitney 181; Alciato 122 (and commentary); Wither 4 (1:4), etc.

The Pelican: Aberdeen Bestiary; Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Wither 154 (3:20); Whitney 87; R.B. 7th

The Beaver: Aberdeen Bestiary ; Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Alciato 153 (and commentary); (optional, French: Lefevre 85 & Aneau 144)

Background: Freeman (ERes)

Due Writing #1, Draft

Festina Lente:

"Festina lente" in Erasmus, printers devices, and emblems.

Whitney 121 (commentary), Alciato 144 (commentary)

Aberdeen Bestiary ; Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica

In class: Donne's "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" & Wither 143

Aesop & Whitney

Perry 393, Aethiop: A 59, W57
Perry 10, Lion and Fearful Fox: W 156
Perry 35, Man and Satyr: W 160
Perry 70, Oak and Reed: W 220, Ayres 21
Perry 93, File and Viper: W 192
Perry 115, Fowler and Viper: A 105, W 78 (P40, falls in ditch)
Perry 133, Dog and Reflection: W 33, Ayres 25
Perry 142, Sick Lion and Fox: W 210
Perry 182, Ass Carrying Image: A 7, W 8
Perry 191, Lion, Ass, and Fox: W 154

Perry 324, Sick Kite: A 129; W 170
Perry 15, Fox and Grapes: W 98
Perry 218, Monkeys and their Young: W 188
Perry 373, Ant and Grasshopper: 159

Due Writing #1, Final

Aesop & Alciato

Perry 3 & 25
Perry 26 & 27
Perry 113 & 128
Perry 148 & 172
Perry 227 & 250
Perry 338 & 413
Perry 369 & 377
Perry 378 & 118
Perry 519 & 530
Perry 267 & 390 (see Wither 64)

In class: choose Wither emblems

Ripa: The four humours: Sanguin, Melancholy, Choler, Phlegm

MEET IN STARR LIBRARY, Special Collections, Abernathy Room

Due Writing #2, Draft

Original Emblems

Due Writing #2, Final

In class: Whitney & Ripa

Bath, chapter 4 "Henry Peacham's Courtly Devises" (handout)

Corbett/Peacham's Compleat Gentlemen (ERes)

Due Writing #3, Draft

midterm recess

Bath, chapter 2

Due Writing #4

Bath, chapter 4

Peacham

Peacham

Due Writing #5

Peacham

Due Writing #6