William Langland's Piers Plowman
Subtitle: A Book of Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780815328049
Subjects: Literary theory; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature and history; History and criticism; To 1500; Langland, William, 1330?-1400?; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Langland, William,; Essays; Langland, William; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Piers the Plowman; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 1330?-1400?; Christian poetry, English (Middle); History
First sentence: Thus Imaginative, the stern if elusively definable allegorical teacher, to Will, the narrator of Piers Plowman who constantly "countrepledep" his authoritative interloculators of religious and secular "law" within the poem and often indirectly criticizes-