"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has

Piers Plowman By William Langland Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the b

This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its re

Features the full text of the poem entitled "Piers the Plowman," written by English poet William Langland (c. 1330-c. 1400) from the "Oxford Book of English Ver