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Piers Plowman: The A Version
Míceál F. Vaughan (Ed.)
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Description for Piers Plowman: The A Version
Paperback. By conservatively editing one important witness of Piers Plowman, Vaughan takes a new generation of students to an early version of this great medieval poem. Editor(s): Vaughan, Miceal F. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Miceal F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and shorter version of this great work. Unlike the B and C versions, there is no modern, affordable edition of the A version available. For the first time in decades, students and ... Read more
The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues of the late Middle Ages. Miceal F. Vaughan presents a fresh edition of the A version, an earlier and shorter version of this great work. Unlike the B and C versions, there is no modern, affordable edition of the A version available. For the first time in decades, students and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421401409
SKU
V9781421401409
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About Míceál F. Vaughan (Ed.)
Miceal F. Vaughan is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Reviews for Piers Plowman: The A Version
Throughout he is a reliable and illuminating guide. Indeed, the scope of Professor Vaughan's introduction itself will be of lasting value to all readers of the poem.
A.S.G. Edwards Times Literary Supplement
A.S.G. Edwards Times Literary Supplement