William Langland

Piers The Ploughman

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Težina 286 g
Format 11 × 18 cm
Autor

Izdavač

Mjesto izdanja

London

Godina

1974

Broj stranica

314

Uvez

Meki

Stanje knjige

Vrlo dobro

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Piers Plowman (written c. 1370–86; possibly c. 1377) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William’s Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in un-rhymed, alliterative verse divided into sections called passus (Latin for step). Like the Pearl Poet’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest works of English literature of the Middle Ages, preceding and even influencing Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Piers Plowman contains the first known reference to a literary tradition of Robin Hood tales. There exist three distinct versions of the poem, which scholars refer to as the A-, B-, and C-texts. The B-text is the most widely edited and translated version; it revises and extends the A-text by over four thousand lines.