 | The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century Subjects: Langland William 1330? -- 1400? Piers the Plowman; Christian poetry English (Middle) -- History and criticism; English language -- Middle English 1100–1500 -- Rhetoric; Langland William 1330?–1400? -- Technique; Openings (Rhetoric); Rhetoric Medieva; In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of EnglandOCOs late Middle AgesOCothe successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginningOCoD. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms." |
