The Life of Ascham By Samuel Johnson Edited by Jack Lynch The text is scanned from Johnson's 1825 Oxford Works. Small capitals appear here as regular capitals. Please send suggestions and corrections to jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu. IT often happens to writers, that they are known only by their works; the incidents of a literary life are seldom observed, and, therefore, seldom recounted: but ...

Roger Ascham, Renaissance English humanist and scholar, Father of English Prose. Life, Works, Resources.