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He was was born about 1525 and was the son of Thomas Wilson, a farmer, of Strubby, Lincolnshire and his wife Anne, daughter and heiress of Roger Cumberworth of Cumberworth in the same county.
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The Knowledge and Practice of Christianity Made Easy to the Meanest Capacities, or an Essay Towards an Instruction for the Indians: Which Will ... Not Well Considered the Meaning of the Religi
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The Book of the Cheese; Being Traits and Stories of "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London, E. C. Compiled by the Late T. ... Revised and Abridged by Frank Banfield
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The Art of Rhetoric (1560)
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A learned work of rhetoric . . . compiled and made in the English tongue, of one who in judgment is profound, in wisdom and eloquence most famous. Thus in 1563 rhetorician Richard Rainolde praised The Art of Rhetoric, the work that brought into English the procedures of Ciceronian rhetoric-invention, disposition, style, memory, and delivery-the core of the academic curriculum in Renaissance England. Written in vigorous, native English, the Art went through eight editions between 1553 and 1585. At least part of its appeal was practicality. On the final page of his copy on Quintilian, Gabriel Harvey noted that The Art of Rhetoric is the "Daily bread of our common pleaders and discoursers." But its appeal was also academic. In 1619, nearly forty years after the Art had lapsed from print, John Milton's teacher Alexander Gill invoked Wilson as he ridiculed the affectations of pretentiously learned language. Seen in its historical context, Wilson's The Art of Rhetoric reveals a great deal about the formal education of such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and Milton. Since it bears directly on what is basic to imaginative literature-the art of language-the Art encapsulates a literary context relevant to all those studying the English Renaissance, whether their approach is historicist, structuralist, deconstructionist, or new historicist. In addition, it will be of interest to students of rhetoric, education, and intellectual history in general. There have been four editions of the Art in the twentieth century: two facsimiles and two original-spelling texts, none of which is in print. Peter Medine's edition modernizes the spelling and punctuation of the text of the second edition, which Wilson revised and expanded in 1560, and furnishes a fully critical apparatus, including introduction, textual notes, commentary, and glossary. As such, this edition makes available a central work of the English Renaissance in an accessible format.
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Thomas Wilson
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He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he joined the school of Hellenists to which Cheke, Thomas Smith, Walter Iladdon and others belonged. He graduated B. A. in 1546 and M. A. in 1549.
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In 1551 he produced, in conjunction with Walter Haddon, a Latin life of Henry and Charles Brandon, dukes of Suffolk. His earliest work of importance was The Rule of Reason, contcinynge the Arte of Logique set forth in Englishe (15 51), which was frequently reprinted. It has been maintained that the book on which Wilson's fame mainly rests, The Arte of Rhetorique, was printed about the same time, but this is probably an error: the first edition extant is dated January 1553. It is the earliest systematic work of literary criticism existing in the English language.
Wilson threw in his lot with the Dudley family, and when they fell, he fled to the Continent. He was with Sir John Choke in Padua in 1555-1557, and afterwards at Rome, whither in 1558 Queen Mary wrote, ordering him to return to England to stand his trial as a heretic. He refused to come, but was arrested by the Roman Inquisition and tortured.
He escaped, and fled to Ferrara, but in 1560 he was once more in London. Wilson became Master of St Katherine's Hospital in the Tower, and entered parliament in January 1563.
In 1570 he published a translation, the first attempted in English, of the Olynthiacs and Philippics of Demosthenes, on which he had been engaged since 1556.
His Discourse upon Usury appeared in 1572. From 1574 to 1577, Wilson, w'ho had now become a prominent person in the diplomatic world, was principally engaged on embassies to the Low Countries, and on his return to England he was made a privy councillor and sworn secretary of state; Walsingham was his colleague.
In 1580, although he was not in holy orders, Queen Elizabeth made Wilson dean of Durham. He died at St Katherine's Hospital on the 16th of June 1581, and was buried next day, "without charge or pomp, " at his express wish.
The Arte of Rhetorique gives Wilson'a high place among the earliest artificers of English style; and it is interesting to see that he was opposed to pedantry of phrase, and above all to a revival of uncouth medieval forms of speech, and encouraged a simpler manner of prose writing than was generally appreciated in the middle of the 16th century.
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The Knowledge and Practice of Christianity Made Easy to the Meanest Capacities, or an Essay Towards an Instruction for the Indians: Which Will ... Not Well Considered the Meaning of the Religi
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The Book of the Cheese; Being Traits and Stories of "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London, E. C. Compiled by the Late T. ... Revised and Abridged by Frank Banfield
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The Art of Rhetoric (1560)
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Wilson was twice married: first, to Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Empson [q. v. ], and widow of John Pinchon of Writtle, Essex (Baker, Northamptonshire, ii. 141). By her Wilson appears to have had no issue; and he married, secondly, Agnes, daughter of John Winter of Lydney, Gloucestershire, sister of Sir William Winter, the admiral, and widow of William Brooke (Visit. Gloucestershire, 1623, p. 274); of her three children, the only son, Nicholas, settled at Sheepwash, Lincolnshire (see pedigree in Coll. of Arms MS. C. 23).
