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The Piers Plowman Glossary (Hardcover)
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This Glossary is designed as a companion to William Langland's
dream vision poem, Piers Plowman, widely regarded as the greatest
literary work in Middle English before Chaucer. It glosses and
explains over 5000 English words, and foreign words used as if
English, in the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman printed in the
critically-acclaimed Athlone editions. Where possible, it
illustrates words with examples from all three versions. The first
glossary to Piers Plowman was compiled in 1886 by Sir William Skeat
but there has been no attempt, until now, to provide a new glossary
that takes account of the considerable advances in Middle English
scholarship over the last century. This new Glossary gives
particular attention to the distinctive problems inherent in its
subject, how the texts were preserved, written and received in
their time. It takes account of the dialectical and morphological
variations between the three texts; the grammar of Langland's
style; the richly figurative texture of the rhetorical language
used in the poem; and the remoteness of many elements in its
content from modern culture and its values.
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