Piers Plowman by William Langland, Eric Weiskott - 9781804132142

Piers PlowmanA New Annotated Edition of the A-text\nAuthor(s): William Langland, Eric Weiskott\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Exeter Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: University of Exeter Press\nISBN-13: 9781804132142, 978-1804132142\nSynopsis\nThe earliest version of William Langlands Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his lifes work will take. Piers Plowman is a sinuous cycle of dream visions in alliterative verse comprehending many aspects of medieval English culture from tavern life, plague, homelessness, and labour politics to religious devotion and theological controversy. At once socially capacious and spiritually electrifying, Langlands poem was an instant bestseller in its own time and has provoked strong reactions from the fourteenth century to the present.\n\nAt under 2,500 lines, the A-text is significantly more compact than the later B- and C-texts, yet it contains much of the poetic thinki.