William Langland
William Langland (ca. 1332 – ca. 1386) is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.
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Piers Plowman - Title and Authorship
... accepted that Piers Plowman was written by William Langland, about whom little is known ... This attribution of the poem to Langland rests principally on the evidence of an early-fifteenth-century manuscript of the C-text (see below) of Piers held at ... Translation It should be noted that Stacy de Rokayle was the father of William de Langlond this Stacy was of noble birth and dwelt in Shipton-under-Wyc ...
... accepted that Piers Plowman was written by William Langland, about whom little is known ... This attribution of the poem to Langland rests principally on the evidence of an early-fifteenth-century manuscript of the C-text (see below) of Piers held at ... Translation It should be noted that Stacy de Rokayle was the father of William de Langlond this Stacy was of noble birth and dwelt in Shipton-under-Wyc ...
William Langland - Life
... The attribution of Piers to Langland rests principally on the evidence of a manuscript held at Trinity College, Dublin (MS 212) ... manuscripts also name the author as 'Robert or William langland', or 'Wilhelmus W.' (most likely shorthand for 'William of Wychwood') ... The poem itself also seems to point towards Langland's authorship ...
... The attribution of Piers to Langland rests principally on the evidence of a manuscript held at Trinity College, Dublin (MS 212) ... manuscripts also name the author as 'Robert or William langland', or 'Wilhelmus W.' (most likely shorthand for 'William of Wychwood') ... The poem itself also seems to point towards Langland's authorship ...
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“on a May morwening upon Malverne hilles
Me befel a ferly, of fairye me thoughte;
I was wery ofwandred and wente me to reste
Under a brod bank by a bournes side;
And as I lay and lenede and lookede on the watres,
I slomerede into a sleeping, it swyede so merye.”
—William Langland (1330–1400)
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