Does dream-vision poetry allow writers to confront, or to escape, the pressing issues of their time? Sian Boyle In this essay I explore three poems, Wynnere and Wastoure, Piers Plowman and Mum and the Sothesegger to argue that their poets most definitely employed dream vision poetry to confront the pressing issues of their time. The titular Piers Plowman is an allegorical stand-in for Jesus Christ and a living example of true Christian morality. In the second vision, he has the repentant Seven Deadly Sins help him plough The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume I of II, by William Langland This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. Piers Plowman opens with narrator and main character, Will, wandering the world as a hermit.One day, Will lies down by a stream and slips into a deep sleep, where he experiences an extraordinary dream. In the dream, Will sees a " field full of folk "—a large swath of land bustling with people from all walks of life. The World of Piers Plowman puts the reader in touch with the sources that helped shape Langland's somber vision. The representative documents included in this book, often cited in connection with the poem yet difficult to come by, disclose the background of Piers Plowman in social and economic history as well as folklore, art, theology the cambridge companion to piers plowman Piers Plowman has long been considered one of the greatest poems of medieval Langland's art. This Companion thus critically surveys traditional scholarship, with the aim of recuperating its best insights, and it ventures forth into newer Scholars of Piers Plowman have long been frustrated by the absence of evidence about its author. The best clue comes from a fifteenth-century note in a Dublin, Trinity College manuscript of the poem: "Memorandum, quod Stacy de Rokayle, pater Willielmi de Langlond, qui Stacius fuit generosus et morabatur in Schiptone under Whicwode, tenens domini le Spenser in comitatu Oxon., qui praedictus William Langland (/ ? l ? ? l ? n d /; Latin: Willielmus de Langland; c. 1332 - c. 1386) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes. The poem translated the language and concepts of the cloister into symbols and images that could be understood by a layman. Full text of "Langland's Vision of Piers the Plowman: An English Poem of the Fourteenth Century, Done Into " See other formats Significant contents. Firstly, it is the earliest text to imitate William Langland 's Piers Plowman, to which it refers explicitly. The selfless Plowman is of course directly drawn from the earlier work. Perhaps written within eight years of the C-text of Piers Plowman, the Crede thus testifies to the appeal of Langland's more subversive, Although "Piers Plowman" is a dream allegory, Langland still presents readers with a roughly structure, so that the readers will not get lost in reading. Through "Piers Plowman," Langland mainly conveys four ideas to readers: Labor, Economy, Love, and Charity. The allusion to the Good Parliament of 1376 is helpful in dating this version of Piers Plowman (the B-text), suggesting that it is a product of the late 1370s. Active Themes A prudent mouse reminds the rats that even if they managed to go so far as to kill the cat , it wouldn't be long until there