Piers Plowman (Everyman's Library) - Softcover

Langland, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460870947 ISBN 13: 9780460870948

Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1991

Synopsis

One man's dream of a better society...

PIERS PLOWMAN stands at the centre of medieval English literature along with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, which in many ways it complements.

A weary wanderer falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a deep dungeon, and in between the whold of humanity pursuing its business and pleasure...but his dream becomes a profound vision of redemption, in which the corruptions and injustices that occur daily are laid open with passionate truthfulness in poetry that combines vigorous realism and probing argument with moments of epic sublimity and lyrical beauty.

Edited by AVC Schmidt of Balliol College, Oxford, this is the B-Text.

'A marvel of comprehension' Derek Pearsall

About this title

Book Description:

'A landmark in Langland studies' John Kitely

About the Author:

William Langland lived from c.1330 to c.1386. He was born near Malvern and was educated for a career in the Church, but appears to have married and never proceeded beyond minor orders.

A.V.C. Schmidt taught at University College, Dublin and Exeter College, Oxford, before becoming Andrew Bradley-James Mazwell Fellow in 1973 at Balliol College, Oxford, where he is Senior English Fellow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0460870947
• ISBN 13: 9780460870948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Schmidt A. V. C.