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- catalog abstract ""William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language." "With its formal singularity, epic-scale vision, and enormous richness of content, this allegorical poem of the late fourteenth century has seized the imagination and interest of a growing and appreciative audience in the twentieth. Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Piers Plowman : the C version : a verse translation".
- catalog alternative "Piers Plowman".
- catalog alternative "Piers plowman".
- catalog contributor b9652760.
- catalog contributor b9652761.
- catalog contributor b9652762.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language." "With its formal singularity, epic-scale vision, and enormous richness of content, this allegorical poem of the late fourteenth century has seized the imagination and interest of a growing and appreciative audience in the twentieth. Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxi]-xxiv).".
- catalog extent "xxxiv, 262 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0812215613 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0812233239 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Middle Ages series".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng enm".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog subject "821/.1 20".
- catalog subject "Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Poetry.".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English (Middle)".
- catalog subject "English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500 Modernized versions.".
- catalog subject "PR2013 .E38 1996".
- catalog subject "Theology History Middle Ages, 600-1500 Poetry.".
- catalog title "Piers Plowman : the C version : a verse translation".
- catalog title "Piers Plowman".
- catalog title "Piers plowman".
- catalog title "William Langland's Piers Plowman : the C version : a verse translation / by George Economou.".
- catalog type "Poetry. fast".
- catalog type "text".