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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: 0-460-87509-4 Publisher: Everymans Library Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: For those who can read Middle English only!
Comment: I remember having to recite the prologue of the Canturbury Tales in Middle English in high school but this is a couple hundred pages. I have read some 'Middle English' books where it wasn't difficult to understand at all, only the spelling was slightly off. THIS IS NOT THE CASE HERE!
For example:
But of coket or clermatyn or ellis of clene whete
That sentence is translated as follows:
But only loaves made of fine wheat flour, or at least only out of wheat unmixed.
There is a lot of latin thrown in as well, so if you are a curious reader who has no background in germanistics or medieval literature, this might not be the book for you. You will probably understand 60-70 percent of what is going on, but a modern English translation might be better.
The story itself is awesome and far superior to Pilgrim's Progress. Like that story, the narrator has a vision and encounters various aspects of human nature in his quest for salvation. The characters are more complex than in Pilgrim's Progress and you have a beautiful tale of a man trying to adhere to his Christian faith amidst clerical and secular corruption.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the greatest books ever
Comment: Although his poem features some difficult language and occasionally awkward organization, William Langland shows keen insight into the human condition in Piers Plowman. No single poem has shown me such a clear picture of what it really means to be human--it should replace Paradise Lost as the official epic of the English language.
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Title: Piers Plowman by William Langland, E. Talbot Donaldson, Elizabeth D. Kirk, Judith H. Anderson ISBN: 0393960110 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.05 |
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Title: Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Gawain and the Green Knight (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) by M. Andrew, Ronald Waldron ISBN: 0859897265 Publisher: University of Exeter Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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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 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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Title: The Riverside Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Benson, Robert Pratt, F.N. Robinson ISBN: 0395290317 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $78.36 |
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