The "Absent" Pardon-Tearing of "Piers Plowman" C.

Author / Editor
Hanna, Ralph.

Title
The "Absent" Pardon-Tearing of "Piers Plowman" C.

Published
Review of English Studies 66, no. 275 (2015): 449–64.

Description
Proposes that when Langland revised B into C, the literary landscape was very different (from Edwardian to Ricardian poetry). Chaucerian dream vision, especially PF with its "emphasis upon the poetic figure who seeks to understand the world through his books and to craft this search as imaginative fiction," may be responsible for the new explicitness and clarity of Piers Plowman C.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Parliament of Fowls