Thomas Wilson, The Art of Rhetoric (1553)
Date
1553
Author
Thomas
Wilson
Note: 15/10/2005
Book title
The Arte of Rhetorique, for the vse of all suche as are studious of Eloquence, sette forth in English
Publication place
London
Printer
Richardus Graftonus
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
rhetoric
Summary
One of its topics is definition, which is defined. Wilson includes a mock letter, filled with hard words, by a Lincolnshire man striving to get a parsonage.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
260
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Alston
VI.10-17
STC
25799
Other editions
1560: STC 25800;
1562: STC 25801;
1563: STC 25802;
1567: STC 25803;
1580: STC 25804;
1584: STC 25805;
1585: STC 25806
1562: STC 25801;
1563: STC 25802;
1567: STC 25803;
1580: STC 25804;
1584: STC 25805;
1585: STC 25806
Facsimiles
Wilson, Thomas. The Arte of Rhetorique. English experience, no. 206. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969.
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Wilson, Thomas. The Arte of Rhetorique, 1553. Ed. Robert Hood Bowers. Gainesville: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1962. view record
Wilson, Thomas. The Arte of Rhetorique, 1553. Ed. Robert Hood Bowers. Gainesville: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1962. view record
Modern editions
Wilson, Thomas. The Art of Rhetoric (1560). Ed. Peter E. Medine. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
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Wilson, Thomas. Arte of Rhetorique. Ed. Thomas J. Derrick. New York: Garland, 1982. view record
Wilson, Thomas. Wilson's Arte of rhetorique, 1560. Ed. G. H. Mair. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. view record
Wilson, Thomas. Arte of Rhetorique. Ed. Thomas J. Derrick. New York: Garland, 1982. view record
Wilson, Thomas. Wilson's Arte of rhetorique, 1560. Ed. G. H. Mair. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. view record
Criticisms
Cram, David, and Ruth Campbell. "A 16th-century Case of Acquired Dysgraphia." Historiographia Linguistica 19.1 (1992): 57-64.
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Howell, Wilbur Samuel. Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1956. view record
Howell, Wilbur Samuel. Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1956. view record
Sources
- Engelhardt, G. J. "The Relation of Sherry's Treatise of Schemes and Tropes to Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 62:1 (1947 March): 76-82. view record
- Wagner, Russell H. "Wilson and his Sources." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 15.4 (1929 November): 525-37. view record
