Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman (w. ca. 1360–1399) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is the title of an apocalyptic Middle English allegorical narrative written by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called "passus" (Latin for "step"). Piers is considered one of the early great works of English literature. It is one of a very few Middle English poems that can stand beside

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1360 - 1399 - Middle English - William Langland - Alliterative verse - English literature - Poem

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The poem concerns the narrator's intense quest for the true Christian life, in the terms of the medieval Catholic mind. That quest entails a series of dream-visions and an examination into the lives of three allegorical characters, Do-Wel ("Do-Well"), Do-Bet ("Do-Better"), and Do-Best, who are sought by Piers, the humble plowman of the title. The poem begins on the Malvern Hills in Malvern, Worcestershire.

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Chaucer's - Canterbury Tales - Christian - Medieval - Catholic - Allegorical - Malvern Hills - Malvern, Worcestershire

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