Tag Archives: Piers the Plowman

in verse # 19 : a hideous and intolerable allegory

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Dennis Clark

One of the books I took with me to Seoul, Randy Lopez goes home,[i] proves that allegory and fable are alive and well in twenty-first century American literature.  Two newspaper clippings I’ve been carrying around since May 8th prove that … Continue reading →

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in verse # 18 : a monstrous fable

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dennis Clark

Like many a medieval manuscript, Piers the plowman has no title as such.  Walter W. Skeat, who gave it that title, notes, however, that, in the manuscript he used as the basis for his Oxford edition, “we find here [in … Continue reading →

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