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Piers the Ploughman (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics

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Piers the Ploughman, a blending of prophecy and satirical comedy, is the great representative English poem of the late Middle Ages.

The work of an obscure fourteenth-century cleric, Piers the Ploughman is concerned with the largest of all poetic themes, the meaning of man's life in relation to his ultimate destiny. This spiritual allegory is set against a colorful background of teeming medieval life between the 'Tower of Truth' and the 'Dungeon of Falsehood'. With an Introduction, Notes and a book-by-book Commentary on the allegory, J.F. Goodridge's modern translation of the poem captures the flavour of Langland's vivid pictures and vernacular expressions.

Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions)

W. W. Norton & Company

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Piers Plowman is one of the most significant works of medieval literature.

Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland’s iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class. E. Talbot Donaldson’s translation of the text has been selected for this Norton Critical Edition because of its skillful emulation of the original poem’s distinct alliterative verse. Selections of the authoritative Middle English text are also included for comparative analysis. "Sources and Backgrounds" includes a large collection of contemporary religious and historical documents pertaining to the poem, including selections from the Douai Bible, accounts of the plague, and legal statutes. "Criticism" includes twenty interpretive essays by leading medievalists, among them E. Talbot Donaldson, George Kane, Jill Mann, Derek Pearsall, C. David Benson, and Elizabeth D. Kirk. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included.
English Authors Series: William Langland (Twayne's English Authors Series)

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William Langland's "Piers Plowman": The C Version (The Middle Ages Series)

University of Pennsylvania Press

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William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the middle of the three, the so-called B-text. Now, George Economou's verse translation of the poet's third version makes available for the first time in modern English the final revision of a work that many have regarded as the greatest Christian poem in our language.

Langland's remarkable powers of invention and his passionate involvement with the spiritual, social, and political crises of his time lay claim to our attention, and demand serious comparison with Dante's Divine Comedy. Economou's translation preserves the intensity of the poet's verse and the narrative energy of his alliterative long line, the immediacy of the original's story of the quest for salvation, and the individuality of its language and wordplay.

A Will to Lead and the Grace to Follow: Letters on Leadership from a Peculiar Prophet

Abingdon Press

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Throughout his time as bishop, Will Willimon has once a week sat down at his computer and tapped out short messages to the churches under his care. Sometimes his intention has been to comfort and console; sometimes it’s been to motivate and inspire. Sometimes he’s written deeply theological meditations on the mystery of the Resurrection; other times, he’s spoken in highly practical terms about what goes into making an affective congregation. Sometimes he wrestles with thorny issues of the day, like religion and politics; other times he lists the things you should do during the first week of a new pastorate. Always he’s brought to the task his trademark humor and insight.  

A Will to Lead and the Grace to Follow brings together dozens of these messages, each of them a gem of pastoral advice. If you want to know about the ins and outs, the highs and lows, of being a leader of God’s people, you’ve come to the right place.
William Langland, William Blake, and the Poetry of Hope (Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures on Medieval English Literature, 5)

Western Michigan Univ Medieval

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Skills USA: Students fare well at state competition - Neosho Daily News
Neosho Daily News, MO - May 19, 2009
Skills USA: Students fare well at state competitionState champion TeamWorks team included Crowder College students Cody Rutledge and Leigh Langland (front row) and David Leedy and William Hively (back row). By Staff reports Crowder College students fared well in the SkillsUSA state championship in

Windmill takes the grind out of farming near Marlborough - North Wiltshire and Kennet Gazette & Herald
North Wiltshire and Kennet Gazette & Herald, UK - May 14, 2009
Windmill takes the grind out of farming near MarlboroughActor Alex Langlands judged a fancy dress contest and talked about living the austere life of a Victorian farming family for the television series the BBC 2 series The Victorian Farm. Wilton Windmill near Great Bedwyn was used to grind corn from 1821

Higher education's toothless guard dog - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk, UK - May 11, 2009
Higher education's toothless guard dogNext Monday the committee will meet the secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills, John Denham, and the incoming chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Sir Alan Langlands. Willis and his team should ask