Piers Plowman William Langland

Piers Plowman William Langland
ISBN-10
1545428905
ISBN-13
9781545428900
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2017-04-17
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
William Langland

Description

Piers Plowman (written c. 1370-90) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called passus (Latin for "step"). It is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest works of English literature of the Middle Ages, along with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Piers Plowman contains the first known allusion to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales.