The Character and Opmions of William 



Lanoland as shown in ''The Vision of 



William Concernino; Piers the 



Plowman." 



BY EDWIN M. HOPKINS. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Langlaud. " The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman," and '• Richard the 

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 B. and C. Vol. I[., Notes and Glossary. 



Langland. •• Piers Plowman." Edition published for the Early English Text Soeietj'. 

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Gower, " Confessio Amautis." Edited by R. Paiili London, Bell & Daldy, 1857. 

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Chaucer. Poetical Works. Editea by Dr. R. Morris. London. Bell & Sons, 1883. 

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Ten Brink. Early English Literature. New York. Holt & Co.. 1889. 



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Freeman. Norman Conquest. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1873-79. Vols. I- VI. 



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The special purpose of this investigation is to give an exposition of 

 the character and teaching of him whose work preeminently, as com- 

 pared with that of other writers of the fourteenth century, reflects the 

 opinions of the common people. Chaucer, Gower, and Wyclif rep- 

 resent each a distinct phase of life as well as of thought; but all are 

 on a plane removed from that of Langland. He too was a scholar, 

 but a humble one, and he remained ever in close sympathy with the 

 humble; his ideas were either the ideas he received from them, or 

 those which they were eager to receive from him, as is attested by 

 the popularity of his work when written. For this reason the results 



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