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...
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Elizabeth Taylor
ET
published another novel, In a Summer Season, whose title reproduces the opening words, modernized, of Piers Plowman by William Langland
.
The title taken from Langland
suggests that the story will offer an...
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Maureen Duffy
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...
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Maureen Duffy
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:...
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Elizabeth Cooper
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...
