William Langland

Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson

"Translation of B Text of Piers Plowman by E. Talbot Donaldson." --T.p. verso.

The Donaldson Translation, Middle English Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism

Piers Plowman

This is a new translation into contemporary English of one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages. Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, for its deeply imaginative religious vision, and for its passionate concern to see justice and truth prevail in our world. A. V. C. Schmidt's translation of the B-text is provided with an Introduction and extensive Notes which place the work in its contemporary setting and offer a full interpretative commentary on the poem. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

A New Translation of the B-text

J. A. Burrow

The magnificent heritage of English poetry before Chaucer is often neglected because of difficulties with unfamiliar dialect. These translations reveal what we are missing if we ignore it. Piers Plowman belongs to the tradition of medieval allegory, but without any of the stuffiness that label suggests. It paints a vivid picture of everyday life in the 14th century with a vigour and detail which anticipates The Canterbury Tales. However, the jewel in the crown of Middle English verse is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, here presented in the classic version by JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings (currently being filmed). A wonderfully told story which combines suspense, fantasy, exquisite domestic detail and sensuality.

With Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; Pearl and Sir Orfeo (anon.)

Aubrey Vincent Carlyle Schmidt

One man's dream of a better society... PIERS PLOWMAN stands at the centre of medieval English literature along with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, which in many ways it complements. A weary wanderer falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a deep dungeon, and in between the whold of humanity pursuing its business and pleasure...but his dream becomes a profound vision of redemption, in which the corruptions and injustices that occur daily are laid open with passionate truthfulness in poetry that combines vigorous realism and probing argument with moments of epic sublimity and lyrical beauty. Edited by AVC Schmidt of Balliol College, Oxford, this is the B-Text. 'A marvel of comprehension' Derek Pearsall

A Critical Edition of the B-text Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17

The Vision of Piers Plowman

George Economou

Presents a translation of the poet's third version of the text

The C Version

William Langland's "Piers Plowman"

Piers Plowman (written c. 1370-90) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called passus (Latin for "step"). It is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest works of English literature of the Middle Ages, along with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Piers Plowman contains the first known allusion to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales.

Piers Plowman William Langland

Text.-v.2.Preface, notes and glossary

Ed., from a Contemporary Manuscript, with a Historical Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary

The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman

Piers the Plowman

The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman

Introduction, notes, and glossary

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Walter William Skeat

Original series

Early English Text Society

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.William Langland (ca. 1332 - ca. 1386) is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.

The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman in Three Parallel Texts: Together with Richard the Redeless

Walter W. Skeat

(about 1394 A. D.) ; Transcribed and Edited from Ms. Trin. Coll. Cam., R. 3, 15, Collated with Ms. Bibl. Reg. 18 B. XVII. in the British Museum, and with the Old Printed Text of 1553

William Langland

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