Wyatt's Boethian Ballade.

Author / Editor
Thomson, Patricia.

Title
Wyatt's Boethian Ballade.

Published
Review of English Studies 15 (1964): 262-67.

Description
Argues that Thomas Wyatt's ballade "If thou wilt mighty be" translates directly from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," unmediated by Chaucer's Bo; his use of the ballade form, however, may have been inspired by Chaucer's Truth. Compares and contrasts Wyatt's translation of Boethius with those of Chaucer and John Walton.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Boece
Truth