Langland

Langland readily promised to return to the Castle and give her the message, and Annys again sought his hiding-place.
Robert Annys: Poor Priest|Annie Nathan Meyer
With Chaucer, Langland, and these illuminators we have a complete exhibition of English life of these times.
English Costume|Dion Clayton Calthrop
The England of Langland is bitter, discontented, and sullen.
The History of England|T.F. Tout
Even in the time of Langland, pilgrimages to Walsingham were not unfavourable to the rites of Venus.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume II (of 3)|Thomas Percy

As Langland was not the first, so neither was he the last that used this alliterative species of versification.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume II (of 3)|Thomas Percy

British Dictionary definitions for Langland

Langland

/ (ˈlæŋlənd) /

noun

William. ?1332–?1400, English poet. The allegorical religious poem in alliterative verse, The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, is attributed to him

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