Piers Plowman
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192836463
Category: Poetry
Page: 355
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Language: un
Pages: 355
Pages: 355
This new translation of the B-text is provided with an Introduction and extensive Notes which place the work in its contemporary setting and offer a full interpretative commentary on the poem.
Language: en
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Presents a translation of the poet's third version of the text
Language: un
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman is a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed that remains meaningful today. The allegorical and satirical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest
Language: un
Pages: 239
Pages: 239
"Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by
Language: un
Pages: 426
Pages: 426
William Langland’s poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary on cataclysmic events such as the Peasants’
