The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5
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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5 by Stephen A Barney
The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes.
"A work of enormous importanceOf all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest and because it is characteristically knotty and deploys a language of unusual richness, density, and allusiveness. Much of this allusiveness is to areas of learning that are not at every modern reader's fingertips. A particular difficulty is the existence of the poem in three authorial versions of almost desperate complexity. It will be an immense triumph to have a commentary which elucidates their relationships as a matter of policy and not simply as the result of conflating annotation on the different versions." * Derek Pearsall *
Stephen A. Barney is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812239218 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812239210 |
| Title | The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5 |
| Author | Stephen A Barney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2006-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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