William Langland's "Piers Plowman"

William Langland's
Author: William Langland
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1996-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780812215618

"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum

Piers the Ploughman

Piers the Ploughman
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141960922

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-09-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781726495486

Piers Plowman By William Langland Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman
Author: William Langland
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786495030

William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical 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 plowman, appears in various guises. Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity, alongside Falsehood and Guile, are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors. Social issues are confronted, including governance, economic relations, criminal justice, marital relations and the limits of academic learning, as well as religious belief and the natural world. This new verse translation from the Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781840221039

An allegorical satire on alliterative verse, describing the vision of the 14th-century poet who falls asleep in the Malvern Hills. Langland covers all aspects of political and theological debate, and echoing common sentiments in its satire of the corrupt church, especially the Friars.

The Vision of Piers the Plowman

The Vision of Piers the Plowman
Author: Walter W 1835-1912 Skeat
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781019943519

This book presents the classic work of William Langland, The Vision of Piers the Plowman, in a modern English translation by Walter W. Skeat. The Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the most important works of medieval English literature, blending religious allegory and social satire with vignettes of everyday life. Skeat's translation makes this seminal work accessible to modern readers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman
Author: William Langland
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421401401

By conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.

The Myth of Piers Plowman

The Myth of Piers Plowman
Author: Lawrence Warner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107043638

A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem. Also available as Open Access.

Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780192836465

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.