A Companion to Piers Plowman
- ISBN-10
- 0520060075
- ISBN-13
- 9780520060074
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 286
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- John A. Alford
Description
"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in a serious consideration of Piers Plowman and also for anyone planning critical or scholarly investigation on it—in other words, for all students of the poem, all readers of the poem, and all scholars of the poem."—Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
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