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Product Description This work--a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman--constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. Review Throughout he is a reliable and illuminating guide. Indeed, the scope of Professor Vaughan's introduction itself will be of lasting value to all readers of the poem.--A.S.G. Edwards"Times Literary Supplement" (01/01/2011) About the Author A. V. C. Schmidt was a Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford from 1972 until his retirement in 2011, and specializes in Piers Plowman and Chaucer.