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A Companion to Piers Plowman

by John A. Alford (Editor)
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Price: $31.95 / £27.00
Publication Date: Mar 1990
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 298
ISBN: 9780520060074
Trim Size: 6.14 x 9.21
Illustrations: 1 frontisp.
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About the Book

A Companion to Piers Plowman is the first comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece. Until now no single volume has discussed the broad range of issues raised here, nor have previous studies drawn on such an internationally distinguished group of Langland scholars.


A Companion to Piers Plowman is the first comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece. Until now no single volume has discussed the broad range of issues raised here, nor have previous studies drawn on such an internati

About the Author

John A. Alford is Professor of English, Michigan State University.

Reviews

"Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in a serious consideration of Piers Plowman and also for anyone planning critical or scholarly investigation on it—in other words, for all students of the poem, all readers of the poem, and all scholars of the poem."—Robert Worth Frank, Jr.