Description:
The earliest version of William Langland's Piers Plowman shows this elusive and centrally important fourteenth-century poet inventing the forms that his life's work will take. This is the first critically considered edition of the A -text supported by an introduction, side glosses, and on-page explanatory notes.
Brief description:
Eric Weiskott is Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author most recently of Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 (2021) and English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (2016). He is an editor of the Yearbook of Langland Studies.