Piers Plowman

[peerz plou-muhn]

noun

1. (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman ) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.

Example Sentences

In the 14th-century Middle English narrative poem Piers Plowman, William Langland puts the matter succinctly: “These pestilences were for pure sin.”

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But the most direct antecedent of Big Mouth’s world of bawdy personifications might be the alliterative 14th-century dream vision poem Piers Plowman.

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Piers Plowman’s use of personification to portray an older body under siege might also give us another perspective on the pleasure we take in a show like Big Mouth.

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“So hard it is,” says a character named Hawkin in Piers Plowman, “to live and do sin. Sin pursues us always.”

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"Loop" meaning a small gap in a wall to look or shoot through, appears in English in the 14th Century - in Langland's Piers Plowman the devils rush to block up the walls of hell to stop heavenly light coming in "at louer ne at loupe".

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