Personification and Allegorisation in "Piers Plowman.."

Author / Editor
Byron-Davies, Justin M.

Title
Personification and Allegorisation in "Piers Plowman.."

Published
Revelation and the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Literature: The Writings of Julian of Norwich and William Langland (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020), pp. 130-73.

Description
Opens with brief contrasts between the uses of dream vision in NPT, Gower's "Vox clamantis," and Langland's "Piers Plowman" before examining at greater length Langland’s use of literary techniques that echo the Bible.

Alternative Title
Revelation and the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Literature: The Writings of Julian of Norwich and William Langland

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Nun's Priest and His Tale