Chaucer and Langland as Religious Writers
- Author / Editor
- Davlin, Mary Clemente, O.P.
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.