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| Author: William Langland | Translator: J. F. Goodridge F. Goodridge |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 0140440879
ISBN-13: 9780140440874
Buy.com Sku: 30017467
Publish Date: 6/11/2007
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(in Inches) 8H x 5.25L x 0.75T
Pages:
320
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| The work of an obscure fourteenth-century cleric, Piers the Ploughman is concerned with the largest of all poetic themes, the meaning of man's life in relation to his ultimate destiny. This spiritual allegory is set against a colourful background of teeming medieval life between the 'Tower of Truth' and the 'Dungeon of Falsehood'. |
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The work of an obscure fourteenth-century cleric, Piers the Ploughman is concerned with the largest of all poetic themes, the meaning of man's life in relation to his ultimate destiny. This spiritual allegory is set against a colourful background of teeming medieval life between the 'Tower of Truth' and the 'Dungeon of Falsehood'. |
Author Bio
William Langland
The very little extant information regarding the life of William Langland, the presumed author of THE VISION OF WILLIAM CONCERNING PIERS THE PLOWMAN, has been gleaned from the pages of this allegorical poem. Because it was written in the Midland dialect, the author is assumed to be from the West of England; however, its accurate portrait of London suggests he was intimate with the city and may have lived there for a time. There is also reference within the text to the existence of a wife and child. Above all, the piety of the simple life is emphasized, and it is probable that Langland was himself a farmer, though because of the unusual number of extant manuscripts (over 50, the earliest version dated at 1362), it can be gathered that he achieved a certain amount of fame. His highly alliterative work is written in the popular verse form of earlier days--formally less forward-thinking than that of his contemporary Chaucer, and presumably appealing to uneducated readers (listeners), not to the courtly audience that Chaucer attracted.
