Piers Plowman: An Alliterative Verse Translation / Edition 1

by William Langland, Judith H. Anderson, Elizabeth D. Kirk, E. Talbot Donaldson

Overview

A translation of the 14th century poem, which offers a picture of society in the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the early modern world.

The translator of this work was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393960112
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/17/1990
Series:	Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

E. Talbot Donaldson was Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. His books include Piers Plowman: The C-Text and Its Poets, Chaucer’s Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader, and, with George Kane, the definitive edition of Piers Plowman: The B Version. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.