| #1376600 in Books | Emily Steiner | 2013-06-28 | 2013-05-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.55 x5.98l,.65 | File type: PDF | 273 pages | Reading Piers Plowman||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent introduction|By Eric Weiskott|This book is an engaging introduction to a very difficult fourteenth-century English poem. It can also serve as an introduction to Middle English literature more generally. Steiner makes the sequence of "passūs" or sections in Piers Plowman the occasion for historical and literary investigation into six topics of recurrent concern in th||"This vigorous and ingenious reading of Piers Plowman manages in compressed compass to convey a wide range of ideas articulated by the poem, implied through its poetic strategies, and associated with late-medieval Christianity. Summing up: recommended. Lower-d
Reading "Piers Plowman" is an indispensable scholarly guide to a magnificent - and notoriously difficult - medieval poem. With Piers Plowman, the fourteenth-century poet William Langland proved that English verse could be at once spiritually electrifying and intellectually rigorous, capable of imagining society in its totality while at the same time exploring heady ideas about language, theology and culture. In her study of Piers Plowman, Emily Steiner explores how Langl...
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