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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | William Langland |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Galloway; Ralph Hanna; Stephen A Barney |
ISBN: | 0812239229 9780812239225 9780812248913 0812248910 9780812250268 0812250265 0812239210 9780812239218 |
OCLC Number: | 62152920 |
Description: | volumes <1-2, 4-5> ; 25 cm |
Contents: | V. 1. C prologue-Passus 4; B Prologue-Passus 4; A Prologue-Passus 4 / Andrew Galloway -- v. 2. C Passūs 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Paaus 5-8 / Ralph Hanna -- v. 4. C Passus 15-19 ; B Passus 13-17 / Traugott Lawler -- v. 5. C Passus 20-22 ; B Passus 18-20 / Stephen A Barney. |
Other Titles: | Commentary on Piers Plowman |
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Publisher Synopsis
A work of enormous importance. Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest and because it is characteristically knotty and deploys a language of unusual richness, density, and allusiveness. Much of this allusiveness is to areas of learning that are not at every modern reader's fingertips. A particular difficulty is the existence of the poem in three authorial versions of almost desperate complexity. It will be an immense triumph to have a commentary which elucidates their relationships as a matter of policy and not simply as the result of conflating annotation on the different versions. * Derek Pearsall * Read more...

