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(1330-1400) British writer. "The Vision of Piers Plowman" (around 1362) has been attributed to William Langland, who died in 1400.
Dichotomy in Piers Plowman
The plowman created to return peasants to work after the 1381 revolt is the opposite of the one peasants adopted as their symbol.
Hypertext Annotation of Passus Five
Read the text of passus five of William Langland's "Piers Plowman," and follow the textual links to read the annotations.
Piers Plowman and the Sublime
Paper addresses the Romantic notion of the sublime as it plays out in "Piers Plowman" according to other critics like C.S. Lewis.
Vision of Piers Plowman, The
Publishes the complete text of Cambridge's B-text version of this medieval tale.

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