Will's Visions of Piers Plowman and Do-well
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780520062290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780520062290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Langland
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1996-12
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812215618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: William Langland
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Langland
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Langland
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1421401401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem.
Author: Traugott Lawler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-04-04
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 0812295129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "Piers Plowman" places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the work, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three versions of the poem and on the stages of its multiple revisions reveals new aspects of the poem's meaning while assessing and summarizing a complex and often divisive scholarly tradition. The volumes offer an up-to-date, original, and open-ended guide to a poem whose engagement with its social world is unrivaled in English literature, and whose literary, religious, and intellectual accomplishments are uniquely powerful. The Penn Commentary is designed to be equally useful to readers of the A, B, or C texts of the poem. It is geared to readers eager to have detailed experience of Piers Plowman and other medieval literature, possessing some basic knowledge of Middle English language and literature, and interested in pondering further the particularly difficult relationships to both that this poem possesses. Others, with interest in poetry of all periods, will find the extended and detailed commentary useful precisely because it does not seek to avoid the poem's challenges but seeks instead to provoke thought about its intricacy and poetic achievements. Covering passūs C.15-19 and B.13-17, Volume 4 of the Penn Commentary on "Piers Plowman" creates a complete vade mecum for readers, identifying and translating all Latin quotations, uncovering allusions, providing full cross-reference to other parts of the poem, drawing in relevant scholarship, and unraveling difficult passages. Like the other commentaries in the series, this volume contains an extensive overview and analysis of each passus, and the subdivisions within, large and small, and discusses all differences between the two versions. It pays careful attention to the poem at the literal level as well as to Latin texts that are analogues or even possible sources of Langland's thought and it emphasizes the comedy of the poem, of which these passūs offer a number of examples.
Author:
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-03-17
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0812292375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language. Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay.
Author: Andrew Galloway
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-05-22
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 0812250265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 4, by Traugott Lawler, creates a complete vade mecum for readers, identifying and translating all Latin quotations, uncovering allusions, providing full cross-reference to other parts of the poem, drawing in relevant scholarship, discussing all differences between the B and C texts, and unraveling difficult passages.
Author: Alex Davis
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0198851421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this work, Alex Davis explores how inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Author: Jeanne Krochalis
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-09-16
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0812205782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNext to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, William Langland's Piers Plowman is perhaps the best-known literary picture of fourteenth-century England. Langland's work, more socially concerned and critical than Chaucer's, reflected an age of religious controversy, social upheaval, and political unrest. The World of Piers Plowman puts the reader in touch with the sources that helped shape Langland's somber vision. The representative documents included in this book, often cited in connection with the poem yet difficult to come by, disclose the background of Piers Plowman in social and economic history as well as folklore, art, theology, homilies, religious tractates, and chronicles. The seven sections into which the readings are divided illustrate ideas concerning (1) the heavens, the universal Church, England, and London; (2) material and spiritual abuses; (3) the most influential literary genres of the period; (4) exempla, moral tales from hagiography, sermon literature, and tracts on moral theology; (5) types of practical instruction available to the devout layperson; (6) the multiple meanings in many literary works; and (7) the moment of death, the judgments on the soul, and the torments and rewards of the afterlife.