William Langland

AB was writing poetry while still in her teens. Langland's Piers Plowman, Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke (whose mother, like AB, was born a Dudley), and Camden's life...

This time MD's poetry volumes came only eighteen months apart. In Past Present, Piers Plowless and Sir Orfeo, she again looks to authors of the past, here Langland and the Orfeo poet, for...

MD's website features a series of poems indignantly addressed to William Langland, author of Piers Plowman, of behalf of the new, unacknowledged poor. The New Vision of Piers Plowless sets the scene:...

ET published another novel, In a Summer Season, whose title reproduces the opening words, modernized, of Piers Plowman by William Langland.

Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor to Samuel Daniel. (The title-page mentions Gower, Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements...