{"product_id":"the-penn-commentary-on-piers-plowman-volume-5-c-passus-222-b-passus-182-9780812239218","title":"The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman Volume 5  C","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A work of enormous importance. Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote to the Reader\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e C Passus 20; B Passus 18\u003cbr\u003e C Passus 21; B Passus 19\u003cbr\u003e C Passus 22; B Passus 20\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index of Historical and Modern Works, Authors, Persons, and Topics\u003cbr\u003e Index of Passages and Notes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405712466263,"sku":"9780812239218","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812239218.jpg?v=1730493368","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-penn-commentary-on-piers-plowman-volume-5-c-passus-222-b-passus-182-9780812239218","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}