Interpretation in Piers Plowman

by William Elford Rogers

Overview

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 of the thorniest thickets of medieval philosophy and theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813210926
Publisher:	The Catholic University of America Press
Publication date:	02/21/2002
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)