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The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.

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"A work of enormous importance. Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest and because it is characteristically knotty and deploys a language of unusual richness, density, and allusiveness. Much of this allusiveness is to areas of learning that are not at every modern reader's fingertips. A particular difficulty is the existence of the poem in three authorial versions of almost desperate complexity. It will be an immense triumph to have a commentary which elucidates their relationships as a matter of policy and not simply as the result of conflating annotation on the different versions." * Derek Pearsall *

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader
Preface
C Passus 20; B Passus 18
C Passus 21; B Passus 19
C Passus 22; B Passus 20
Works Cited
Index of Historical and Modern Works, Authors, Persons, and Topics
Index of Passages and Notes

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman Volume 5 C

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/03/2006
      ISBN13: 9780812239218, 978-0812239218
      ISBN10: 0812239210
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.

      Trade Review
      "A work of enormous importance. Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest and because it is characteristically knotty and deploys a language of unusual richness, density, and allusiveness. Much of this allusiveness is to areas of learning that are not at every modern reader's fingertips. A particular difficulty is the existence of the poem in three authorial versions of almost desperate complexity. It will be an immense triumph to have a commentary which elucidates their relationships as a matter of policy and not simply as the result of conflating annotation on the different versions." * Derek Pearsall *

      Table of Contents

      Note to the Reader
      Preface
      C Passus 20; B Passus 18
      C Passus 21; B Passus 19
      C Passus 22; B Passus 20
      Works Cited
      Index of Historical and Modern Works, Authors, Persons, and Topics
      Index of Passages and Notes

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