Poems
- Piers Plowman The Prologue (B-Text)
- Pilgrimage In Search Of Do-Well
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 01
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 03
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 04
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 06
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 07
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 08
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 09
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 10
Analysis of poems
- Piers Plowman The Prologue (B-Text)
- Pilgrimage In Search Of Do-Well
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 01
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 03
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 04
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 06
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 07
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 08
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 09
- The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 10
The themes William Langland wrote about
Biography
William Langland was born in 1332, probably at Ledbury near the Welsh marshes and may have gone to school at Great Malvern Priory. Although he took minor orders he never actually became a priest.
Having later moved to London he apparently eked out his living by singing masses and copying documents. His great work, Piers Plowman, or, more precisely, The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, is an allegorical poem in unrhymed alliterative verse, regarded as the greatest Middle English poem prior to Chaucer. It is both a social satire and a vision of the simple Christian life. The poem consists of three dream visions:
(1) in which Holy Church and Lady Meed (representing the temptation of riches) woo the dreamer;
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