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ENGS11

Reading Piers Plowman: Intensive Study of a Late Fourteenth-Century Allegory

Subject code

ENG

Course Number

S11

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Course Long Title

Reading Piers Plowman: Intensive Study of a Late Fourteenth-Century Allegory

Description

This course offers an intensive close reading experience of William Langland's allegorical poem Piers Plowman. Langland, a major contemporary of Chaucer, is studied for his use of alliterative Middle English verse, his visionary politics, and his reformist religious views.