Langland, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
LANGLAND, WILLIAM c.1332 c.1400, putative author of Piers Plowman. He was born probably at Ledbury near the Welsh marshes...7,357 lines, between 1393 and 1398). Most scholars now believe that at least the A- and B-texts are the work of William Langland, whose biography has been deduced from passages in the poem. However, some still hold that the poem is the work of two...