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Langland

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Lang·land  (lnglnd), William 1332?-1400.
English poet who is credited with the authorship of The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, a medieval religious allegory.
Langland [ˈlæŋlənd]
n
(Biographies / Langland, William (?1332-?1400) M, English, WRITING: poet) William. ?1332-?1400, English poet. The allegorical religious poem in alliterative verse, The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, is attributed to him


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But if Langland did not rise high in the Church, he made himself famous in another way, for he wrote Piers the Ploughman.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
The followers of Chaucer, and the precursors of Shakespeare, are alike real persons to him--old Langland reminding him of Carlyle's "Gospel of Labour.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
From the sixteenth century, at least, until very lately this work, the various versions of which differ greatly, has been supposed to be the single poem of a single author, repeatedly enlarged and revised by him; and ingenious inference has constructed for this supposed author a brief but picturesque biography under the name of William Langland.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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