John William Cousin, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature… (1910)
“ His great work, Utopia, was written in Latin in two books -- the second 1515, and the first 1516. It had immediate popularity, and was translated into French 1530, English 1551, German 1524, Italian 1548, and Spanish 1790. It gives an account of an imaginary island and people, under cover of which it describes the social and political condition of England, with suggested remedies for abuses. ”
