Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as a political thinker

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Table 1. Thomas More’s Works.

	Date(s) of Composition	Date of First Print Publication
English Poems	c. 1492–1509, c. 1534–5	1557 Workes
Latin Poems	c. 1496–1509	With 1518 Utopia
Life of Pico della Mirandola	1505/1510^a	1510
Translations of Lucian	1505	1506
History of King Richard the Third	c. 1513–1517	Published piecemeal in Chronicles in the 1530s and 1540s, published in full in the Workes of 1557
Utopia	1515–1516	1516
Letter to Dorp	1515	1563
Letter to Oxford	1518	1588
Letter to a Monk	1519	1520
Letter to Lee	1519	1520
Four Last Things	1522	Workes 1557
Responsio ad Lutherum	1523	1523
Letter to Bugenhagen	1525–6	1568
Dialogue Concerning Heresies	1528–9	1529
Supplication of Souls	1529	1529
Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer	1531–1533	1532, 1533
The Apology of Sir Thomas More.	1533	1533
The Debellation of Salem and Bizance	1533	1533
Letter against Frith	1533	1533
The Answer to a Poisoned Book	1533	1533
A Treatise upon the Passion	1534	Workes 1557
A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Body	1534	Workes 1557
Devout Instructions and Prayers	1534	Workes 1557
A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation	1534	1553
De Tristitia Christi	1535	Workes 1557 (translation); 1976

^a Frank Mitjans, Thomas More’s Vocation (Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023), 72, 78, 121–3, based on the evidence in later biographies, suggests that More translated the Life of Pico in 1505. The Works of Thomas More, published by William Rastell in 1557, suggests it was translated ‘about the year of our Lord 1510’.