Chaucer and Langland as Religious Writers

Author / Editor
Davlin, Mary Clemente, O.P.

Title
Chaucer and Langland as Religious Writers

Published
Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, ed. William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 119-41.

Description
Chaucer and Langland are both "great religious writers," although Langland is more deeply engaged in "who and what God is." Both writers are poets of religious experience: Chaucer explores pathos, and Langland confronts the "central beliefs of Christianity."

Alternative Title
William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.