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Claire
Marshall.
William Langland: Piers Plowman.
Tavistock: Northcote
House in association with the British Council,
2001.
Writers and their Work series.
xvi,123pp.
Paperback, ISBN
0746308604.
Publisher's
recommended price £9.99
William
Langland
is one of the most important authors of the middle ages and Piers
Plowman,
one of the most complex and challenging poems of all time. Written and
revised in the last decades of the fourteenth century, Piers Plowman
is a dream vision which gives an account of one man's ardent quest for
personal salvation in a world torn apart by social unrest and economic
upheaval. Langland's passionate concern with issues such as social
injustice,
the use and abuse of learning, church corruption and poverty ensured
his
poem's wide and immediate following. It also gained Piers Plowman a
later
literary reputation for political and religious radicalism which far
outstripped
the poem's sentiments at the time of writing. Taking into account
recent
political and historical work on the poem, this study looks at new ways
of exploring the poem's proximity to traditions of religious and social
dissent. It analyses the social implications of the poem's complex
allegorical
form and argues for the text to be read as a far-reaching critique of
the
social and sacred models that were the foundation of Langland's
world.
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