Readers in the sixteenth century read (that is, interpreted) texts quite differently from the way contemporary readers do; they were trained to notice different aspects of a text and to process them differently. Using educational works of Erasmus, Ascham, and others, commentaries on literary works, various kinds of religious guides and homilies, and self-improvement books, Kintgen has found specific evidence of these differences and makes imaginative use of it to draw fascinating and convincing conclusions about the art and practice of reading. Kintgen ends by situating the book within literary theory, cognitive science, and literary studies. Among the writers covered are Gabriel Harvey, E. K. (the commentator on The Shepheardes Calendar), Sir John Harrington, George Gascoigne, George Puttenham, Thomas Blundeville, and Angel Day.

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Black town, beige woods, green frozen creek, All now, this moment, stilled, Our steeple clock Transfixed, the mineral twigs Intact, this park's arterial loss Suspended, do rebuke me, Gone amiss In minute thefts to break My bond, who set my face, my sticks, My springs against a thief, Time on my crux To nail: my thirty-three Deliquesce, so sly, I might now wink My hand, bone, lymph away: Not all my ink Keeps to my word or want, Arrests the sun, resurrects the tree, Or translates out of my water So little wine: All miracles not done.

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