Excerpt from Langland's Vision of Piers the Plowman: An English Poem of the Fourteenth Century, Done Into Modern Prose The text has been entirely revised and compared again, line for line, with the original Middle English. The annotations (for some of which the late Professor Skeat and his publishers kindly allowed the Editor to make use of the notes in the Oxford editions of the poem) have also been revised and additions made. An outline of the controversy now proceeding about the authorship of Piers the Plowman has been added to the Appendix. The Introduction, treating of the poem, is new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.