The ending, and end, of Piers Plowman B: the C-version origins of the final two passus.

From: Medium Aevum | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Anyone looking for the 1,000-odd lines of Middle English poetry with the greatest impact upon our understandings of English culture c.1380 could do much worse than choose passus XIX and XX of Piers Plowman B. Their sheer power has attracted much of the attention: Robert Frank heard 'splendid Beethovian thunder' in passus XX, which features Will's waking encounter with Need and the apocalyptic final dream in which Elde and Antichrist ravage Holy Church. (1) The final few lines, in which Conscience announces that he 'wole bicome a pilgrym, / And wenden as wide as the world rennep / ...

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