Piers the Ploughman
Piers the Ploughman

Author: William Langland

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-01-26

Total Pages: 375

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.

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

Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman

Author: William Langland

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-10-20

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0786495030

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William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Piers, the honest plowman, appears in various guises. Characters such as Conscience, Fidelity and Charity, alongside Falsehood and Guile, are instantly recognizable as our present-day politicians and celebrities, friends and neighbors. Social issues are confronted, including governance, economic relations, criminal justice, marital relations and the limits of academic learning, as well as religious belief and the natural world. This new verse translation from the Middle English preserves the energy, imagery and intent of the original, and retains its alliterative style. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.