The complete online text of Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation by Thomas More.

The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the religious policy of Henry VIII. Thomas More was born...

Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritual works in Latin and English and thereby contributed...

Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature to produce a new literature keyed to his age; second,...

Soon after Thomas More's death his family sought to take control of his public image by writing or commissioning accounts of his life. Through those biographies they presumably hoped to dominate future as well as present views on the conflict between his religious...

A DIALOGUE OF COMFORT AGAINST TRIBULATION. By THOMAS MORE. Sceptre. 318 pp. $24.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. While awaiting his death in the Tower of London, More wrote this most unusual example of prison literature, a spiritual treatise peppered with comic stories about...