William Langland – Piers Plowman (Poem Summary)

Written sometime between 1360-1387. It’s now commonly accepted that Piers Plowman was written by William Langland, about whom little is known. This attribution of the poem to Langland rests principally on the evidence of an early 15th-century manuscript of the C-text held at Trinity College, Dublin The poem describes a series of wonderful dreams the … Continue reading William Langland – Piers Plowman (Poem Summary)