Thomas More's 'Dialogue' and the 'Book of the Tales of Canterbury' : 'Good Mother Wit' and Creative Imagination

Author / Editor
Fox, Alistair.

Title
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.