Interpretation in Piers Plowman

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.

Author: William Elford Rogers
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 02/01/2002
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.64w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780813210926

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2002 pg. 471