Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Utopia | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Bibliography

Gibson, R. W. St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography of His Works and of Moreana to the Year 1750. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, 499 p.

A descriptive bibliography of early editions of More's works and Moreana, with a bibliography of Utopiana by Gibson and J. Max Patrick.

Criticism

Allen, Peter R. " Utopia and European Humanism: The Function of the Prefatory Letters and Verses." Studies in the Renaissance X (1963): 91-107.

Discusses the letters and poems written for early editions of Utopia by More and his fellow humanists. Allen concludes: "The appended letters and verses … share in both the fictional aspect of Utopia and its serious intent, and commend it as both a delightful literary game and an important philosophic work."

Berger, Harry, Jr. "Utopian Folly: Erasmus and More on the...

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