Piers the Ploughman
Title | Piers the Ploughman PDF eBook |
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
Title | Piers Plowman PDF eBook |
Author | William Langland |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2014-10-06 |
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
Title | Piers Plowman PDF eBook |
Author | William Langland |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2017-08-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781974640898 |
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
Vision of Piers the Plowman
Title | Vision of Piers the Plowman PDF eBook |
Author | William Langland |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | |
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Piers Plowman
Title | Piers Plowman PDF eBook |
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.
Piers Plowman
Title | Piers Plowman PDF eBook |
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 Vision of Piers the Plowman
Title | The Vision of Piers the Plowman PDF eBook |
Author | William Langland |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | English language |
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