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Title: Piers Plowman by William Langland, Talbot Donaldson, Elizabeth D. Kirk ISBN: 0-393-02772-4 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.75 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Enjoyable
Comment: This poem is very unique. Langland conveys many moral issues that will always be part of human existence. The poem is written in the beautiful, alliterative style. It is not quite a standard allegory and perhaps this is why I enjoyed it so much. It is masterfully composed and Piers' vision is accutely realized. Langland has an artistic touch that grabs hold of a reader and also manages to import a message. I would recommend a version that has both the original text, with all the idosyncratic spellings, and a modern English translation. Reading this is like reading Dante, Chaucer, or the Gawain Poet. A lot to chew on but well worth the trouble.
Rating: 5
Summary: The most inspirational book besides the Bible
Comment: This poem is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. I am not a specialist in Middle English, so I cannot say what was lost in the translation into Modern English. I have a copy of the B-Text version which is in Middle English, and if you are like me and have no background therein, this is definitely the version to possess.
It was written circa 1380 and gives an excellent account of life in Plantagenent England and the behavior of the people. The money economy was relatively new, and he saw the negative effects that it had upon both the secular authorities and the Church. The poem is written as an allegory in which the author tries to reconcile the needs of human society with satisfying our Lord our God. Similar to Pilgrim's Progress, the author has a vision, in which he is encounters different aspects of humanity (Covetousness, Sloth, Soul, Knowledge, etc.) on his attempt to find Truth (or God). It is definitely not light reading, and there is so much deep thought that one has to spend a lot of time reading it slowly, as I am sure it was done in the 'Middle Ages'.
The author thought that End Times were near after the Black Death and the utter corruption amongst secular and clerical authorities at the time. The fact that something so penetrating and inspirational was written and found such an appreciative audience that it has survived till now shows that the society then was not so bad. Highly recommended.
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Title: The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Critical Edition of the B-Text Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17 (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by William Langland, A.V.C. Schmidt ISBN: 0460875094 Publisher: Everymans Library List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Book of Margery Kempe by Margery B. Kempe, Barry Windeatt ISBN: 0140432515 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 08 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics) by Boethius, Victor Watts ISBN: 0140447806 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The by Peter Abelard, Betty Radice ISBN: 0140442979 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, Jean De Meun, Charles Dahlberg ISBN: 0691044562 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 03 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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