Talk:Thomas Elyot

Ancestor of T. S. Eliot
Should mention that Elyot's "Boke Named The Governor" is quoted in "East Coker," a poem by T. S. Eliot, who was Elyot's collateral descendant.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2872561 http://www.davidgorman.com/4quartets/notes.htm https://interestingliterature.com/2017/02/a-short-analysis-of-t-s-eliots-east-coker/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:6000:1514:584:4DAA:6D38:22F3:A8BA (talk) 02:23, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

"He is best known as one of the first proponents of the use of the English language for literary purposes"
The above seems to me to be a rather dubious claim. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) is referred to as the "father of English literature" and he dates to a century and a half earlier. See not only The Canterbury Tales and his other literary works, but also A Treatise on the Astrolabe, a text book, wherein he defends writing in English; see the language section. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 10:11, 24 May 2022 (UTC)