William Langland. Piers Plowman (general note).
William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first.
William Langland, Piers Plowman, ed. by Elizabeth Robertson and Stephen H. A. Shepherd (Norton, 2006). It is essential that you purchase this edition (available new and second-hand), which contains Langland's poem in the original Middle English, a modern English translation in parallel, and many of the additional texts and extracts on the syllabus.
A commissioned essay introducing this important Middle English alliterative poem, with an undergraduate audience in mind.
This research examines William Langland's 14th-century extended narrative poem The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (aka Piers Plowman) as a poetic exercise in social satire. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context and literary history surrounding the production of Piers Plowman and then to discuss the pattern of ideas and narrative devices in the.
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William Langland, Piers Plowman 1367 - 1386. Explore this item in our Flash timeline. Share. Intro. There are several manuscript versions of The Vision of Piers Plowman, giving three recognised texts dating from 1367 to 1386, varying enormously in length. The poem concerns a quest for truth through faith, featuring personifications of Conscience, Reward, Thought, Wit, Study, and Imagination.
Biography of William Langland who was probably born in Ledbury, Herefordshire in about 1332. Langland moved to London where he made his living by singing songs at rich men's funerals. Langland also wrote poetry and is believed to be the author of The Vision Piers the Plowman.