Public Piers Plowman
Public Piers Plowman

Author: C. David Benson

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780271046204

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"Public Piers Plowman is divided into two parts. The first is an extended essay on what Benson calls the "Langland myth." He traces the evolution of Piers scholarship and demonstrates the limitations of treating Piers as a direct expression of the poet's experience and intellectual views." "In the second part Benson offers an alternative history for the poem. Benson approaches it from a broader public context, using representative examples from vernacular writing, parish art, and civic practices. He argues that Piers reached a wide contemporary audience because, far from being an account only of the author's own life and opinions, it was securely rooted in the common culture of its time and place."--Jacket.

Public Piers Plowman
Public Piers Plowman

Author: C. David Benson

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2004-01

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9780271023151

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The fourteenth-century alliterative poem Piers Plowman was widely popular in its own day. The number of its surviving manuscripts ranks just below that of Chaucer&’s Canterbury Tales. Although the poem has been the subject of some interesting recent critical scholarship, it continues to be marginalized by medievalists and non-medievalists alike. According to C. David Benson, this is because the tendency of modern criticism has been to read Piers as an autobiography mired in the singular intellectual obsessions of its author or as a recondite exploration of theological and political issues. In Public Piers Plowman, Benson returns the poem to the center of late medieval English culture by treating it as a public rather than a personal or elite work. In the process, Benson makes this great poem more accessible, exciting, and necessary to modern readers.

William Langland's "Piers Plowman"
William Langland's

Author: William Langland

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1996-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780812215618

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"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum

William Langland's Piers Plowman
William Langland's Piers Plowman

Author: Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1135652899

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This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its relevance to contemporary literary theory and to 14th century culture and ideology.

The Myth of Piers Plowman
The Myth of Piers Plowman

Author: Lawrence Warner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1107043638

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A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem. Also available as Open Access.

Piers the Ploughman
Piers the Ploughman

Author: William Langland

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-01-26

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0141960922

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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.

Reading Piers Plowman
Reading Piers Plowman

Author: Emily Steiner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-09

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107244331

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Reading 'Piers Plowman' is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With 'Piers Plowman', the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology and culture. In her study of Piers Plowman, Emily Steiner explores how Langland's ambitious poetics emerged in dialogue with contemporary ideas; for example, about political counsel and gender, the ethics of poverty, Christian and pagan learning, lordship and servitude, and the long history of Christianity. Lucid and comprehensive, Steiner's study teaches us to stay alert to the poem's stunning effects while still making sense of its literary and historical contexts.

The Myth of Piers Plowman
The Myth of Piers Plowman

Author: Lawrence Warner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1107783097

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Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem and contextualizes its first modernization. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched.

Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman

Author: William Langland

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-09-07

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781726495486

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Piers Plowman By William Langland 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.