Authors: Thomas More, Robert M. (Eds.) Adams, Robert M. Adams
ISBN-13: 9780393961454, ISBN-10: 0393961451
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 1991
Edition: 2nd Edition
Robert M. Adams was Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics; Strains of Discord; Proteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussion of Literary Translation; The Land and Literature of England; and Shakespeare—The Four Romances. In addition to the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (he was translator and editor of the First and Second Editions), Professor Adams was editor of five other Norton Critical Editions, including The Prince by Machiavelli, Candide by Voltaire, and The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Erasmus, the texts of which he also translated. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Robert M. Adams’s celebrated translation of Utopia has been meticulously revised for the Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition as have the accompanying annotations.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Pt. 1 | Introduction: More's Utopia in Historical Perspective | 1 |
Texts | 3 | |
Contexts | 26 | |
Developments | 51 | |
Pt. 2 | Utopia | 81 |
Letter from Peter Giles to Hierome Buslide | 202 | |
A Meter of Four Verses | 205 | |
A Short Meter of Utopia | 206 | |
Gerard Noviomage of Utopia | 206 | |
Cornelius Graphey to the Reader | 207 | |
The Printer to the Reader | 207 | |
Ralph Robynson's Dedicatory Letter to William Cecil | 209 | |
Selected Bibliography | 213 | |
Index | 225 |