Piers Plowman
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393027723 (0393027724)
Publish date: September 5th 1990
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Religion,
College,
Poetry,
14th Century
My first impression of this book was that it reminded me a lot of Pilgrims' Progress, however it is nowhere near as simple or as straight forward as John Bunyan's text. In fact, having been written three hundred years earlier, not only does the text need to be translated, the period in which it was ...
After approximately a year of wading through Middle-English alliterative verse at an average rate of approximately one page per day, I have finally come to the end of The Vision of Piers Plowman. So was it worth it? Yes! It is by some stretch my most ambitious undertaking in regard to reading Midd...
14 years ago
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