Education Imagery in Poetry from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century - Resources

History of Education

Aldrich, Richard. An Introduction to the History of Education. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.

Gutek, Gerald. A History of the Western Educational Experience. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1972.

Greek Education

Beck, F.A.G. Album of Greek Education: The Greeks at Home and Play. Sydney: Cheiron Press, 1975.

Beck, F.A.G. Greek Education: 450-350 B.C. London: Methuen, 1964.

Beck, F.A.G. Bibliography of Greek Education and Related Topics. Sydney: F.A.G. Beck, 1986.

Jaeger, Werner. Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture. Volumes I-III. Translated from the German by Gilbert Highet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965 (1939).

Roman Education

Cole, Percival Richard. Later Roman Education in Ausonius, Capella, and the Theodosian Code. New York: Teachers' College, 1909.

Gwynn, Aubrey. Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian. New York: Teachers' College Press, 1966.

Medieval Education

Symonds, John Addington. Wine, Women, and Song: Medieval Latin Students' Songs now Translated into English Verse. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1966.

Waddell, Helen. The Wandering Scholars. London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1926.

Renaissance Education and Emblems

Bath, Michael. Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture. London and New York: Longman, 1994.

Bath, Michael. The Art of the Emblem: Essays in Honor of Karl Josef Holtgen. New York: AMS Press, 1993.

Daly, Peter. The English Emblem and the Continental Tradition. New York: AMS Press, 1988.

Freeman, Rosemary. English Emblem Books. New York: Octagon Books, 1966.

Furniss, Tom and Michael Bath. Reading Poetry: An Introduction to Skills, Theories, and Histories. London and New York: Prentice Hall-Europe, 1996.

Wildeblood, Joan and Peter Brinson. The Polite World: A Guide to English Manners and Deportment from the the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.