The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland Newly Rendered into Modern English by Henry W. Wells (HQ363)

Published 1935: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original brown cloth with black titles on the spine. 304 clean and bright pages, previously owned by the Franciscan Abbey with stamps on the title page and first free page. Boards slightly stained, rubbed and faded with time consistent with age. (HQ363)

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THE first thing which strikes one in reading "The Vision of Piers Plowman," here most excellently rendered into modern speech, is the intense modernity of this fourteenth century English poem. William Langland, to accept the view of the translator of single authorship and not Professor Manley's theory of several collaborators, was by no means so great a poet as his great contemporary Chaucer; he could neither create nor depict characters; he was no raconteur. VIEW FULL ARTICLE IN TIMESMACHINE »

https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/01/archives/a-new-piers-plowman-the-vision-of-piers-plowman-by-william-langland.html