San Antonio College Library

I made the first step toward this study of William Langland's fourteenth-century poem 'Piers Plowman (The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman) in 1958. Keeping in mind the student and the general reader, I have sought the man Langland, a poet of whom there is much to be said, and I have highlighted the features which I believe to be of most use to the beginner. This book is, therefore, more literal than might be expected by experienced students...

"The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Míceál F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and shorter version of this great work. Unlike the B...