"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has

Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful med

This collection of newly written essays provides a fresh examination of some of the issues central to the study of this poem, including an exploration of its re

Examines the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England. This book tracks the