Thomas More's 'Dialogue' and the 'Book of the Tales of Canterbury' : 'Good Mother Wit' and Creative Imagination
- Author / Editor
- Fox, Alistair.
Thomas More's 'Dialogue' and the 'Book of the Tales of Canterbury' : 'Good Mother Wit' and Creative Imagination
- Published
- Patricia Bruckmann, ed. Essays Presented to Arthur Edward Banker (Ontario: Oberon Press, 1978), pp. 15-24.
- Description
- In his defense of poetry as an ideal instrument to develop common sense, or "good mother wyt," in the "Dialogue" of 1529, More frequently alludes to Chaucer as a fountainhead of this admirable faculty.
- Contributor
- Bruckmann, Patricia,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Essays Presented to Arthur Edward Banker.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.