SOURCE: Salamon, Linda Bradley. “The Imagery of Roger Ascham.” Texas Studies in Language and Literature 15, no. 1 (spring 1973): 5-23.

In the following essay, Salamon discusses Ascham's use of metaphors in The Scholemaster, Toxophilus, and A Report on Germany, marking his emphasis on the mundane and simple aspects of life. Salamon interprets Ascham's imagery as a reflection of the author's own tastes and interests, as an indication of his genial personality, and as a suggestion of the egalitarian potential of his humanism.

Sackville: “Seeing God did so bless you, to make you the scholar of the best master, and also the schoolmaster of the best scholar, that ever were in our time; surely, you should please God, benefit your country, and honest your own name, if you would take the pains to impart to others what you learned of such a master, and how ye taught such a scholar.”

Ascham...