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William Langland
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English writer
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- Born
- 1330?
- Died
- 1400?
- Works
- 73
Top works
- The vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, and Richard the Redeles
- The vision of Piers Plowman
- Vision of Piers the plowman and English poem of the 14th century done into modern prose with an introd. by Kate M. Warren
- I playne Piers which can not flatter
- Pierce the Ploughmans crede (about 1394 A.D.) to which is appended God spede the plough (about 1500 A.D.)
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 1996 · cited 61,639x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,946x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,024x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,751x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,537x
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Quotes
- “In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were,In habite as an heremite unholy of werkes, Wente wide in this world wondres to here. Ac on a May morwenynge on Malverne hilles Me bifel a ferly, of Fairye me thoghte.”
- “A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene – Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche, Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.”
- “For hevene myghte nat holden it, so was it hevy of hymself, Til it hadde of the erthe eten his fille. And whan it hadde of this fold flessh and blood taken, Was nevere leef upon lynde lighter therafter, And portatif and persaunt as the point of a nedle, That myghte noon armure it lette ne none heighe walles. Forthi is love ledere of the Lordes folk of hevene, And a meene, as the mair is, [inmiddes] the kyng and the commune.”
- “Brewesters and baksters, bochiers and cokes – For thise are men on this molde that moost harm wercheth To the povere peple”
- “I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth, But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.”
- “For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule, It is in cloistre or in scole.”
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Described at
Biografia de William Langland
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- date of birth
- 1332-01-01
- date of death
- 1400-01-01
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- William Langland
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- www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/l/langland.htm
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- Winrich Behr
- P13311
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Article
"Langland's Dreamer": from an illuminated initial in a Piers Plowman manuscript held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
William Langland (/ˈlæŋlənd/; Latin: Willielmus de Langland; c. 1330 – c. 1386) is the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes. The poem translated the language and concepts of the cloister into symbols and images that could be understood by a layman.