Interpretation in Piers Plowman

by William Elford Rogers

William Langland was, in an entirely different way, as great a poet as his contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer. Langland's Piers Plowman, his life's work, most often sounds like an odd mixture of dream-vision, satire, sermon, and allegory, as if its purpose were aggressively didactic. Some critics explicate the poem as a coherent system of doctrine. Others deny system, preferring to think of the poem as recording a number of inconclusive stories into some...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813210925
• ISBN13: 9780813210926
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.0"