The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Critical Edition of the B-text Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17
- ISBN-10
- 0460875094
- ISBN-13
- 9780460875097
- Series
- The Vision of Piers Plowman
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 550
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Authors
- William Langland, Aubrey Vincent Carlyle Schmidt
Description
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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