Piers Plowman - Hardcover

Langland, William

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ISBN 10: 0563178922 ISBN 13: 9780563178927

Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1981

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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

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'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.

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