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	:"No other poem of the alliterative tradition combines so distinctively rational procedure (in the verse paragraph, the individual speech or episode) with what appears, at first, to be a larger irrationality -- an almost inconsequential attitude to the problems of developing and sustaining actions and arguments." (22)		:"No other poem of the alliterative tradition combines so distinctively rational procedure (in the verse paragraph, the individual speech or episode) with what appears, at first, to be a larger irrationality -- an almost inconsequential attitude to the problems of developing and sustaining actions and arguments." (22)

	manuals on preaching and writing sermons common in late medieval period; focus on balance between beauty and usefulness (Ciceronian triple aim of rhetoric -- docere, movere, delectare)		'''manuals on preaching and writing sermons''' common in late medieval period; focus on balance between beauty and usefulness (Ciceronian triple aim of rhetoric -- docere, movere, delectare)
	* Langland drawing on this tradition		* Langland drawing on this tradition
			* liken a well-structured sermon to a well-structured cathedral (30)

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	''Piers Plowman'' has been read as a sermon, or as medieval religious allegory		''Piers Plowman'' has been read as a sermon, or as medieval religious allegory

	we need to be more sensitive to it as ''art'', the product of a creative imagination		we need to be more sensitive to it as ''art'', the '''product of a creative imagination'''

	poem's art is "part of a larger web of allegorical significances, which Langland can only help us to understand if we will accept the initial premise -- a potential though fluctuating richness of connected meanings" (9)		poem's art is "part of a larger web of allegorical significances, which Langland can only help us to understand if we will accept the initial premise -- a potential though fluctuating richness of connected meanings" (9)
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	popular in its own tiem; over 50 manuscripts from c14-15, and printed four times before 1561 (12)		popular in its own tiem; over 50 manuscripts from c14-15, and printed four times before 1561 (12)

	by early c16, was pilloried for social/religious satire, used (ironically) to support the Reformation		by early c16, was pilloried for social/religious satire, '''used (ironically) to support the Reformation'''

	'''alliterative verse''': aligns Langland with medieval poets from west and north of England who inherited alliterative tradition from pre-Conquest times, used it in preference to French metres (13); display or rhetorical flourishes, not concealment (17)		'''alliterative verse''': aligns Langland with medieval poets from west and north of England who inherited alliterative tradition from pre-Conquest times, used it in preference to French metres (13); display or rhetorical flourishes, not concealment (17)
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	:"No other poem of the alliterative tradition combines so distinctively rational procedure (in the verse paragraph, the individual speech or episode) with what appears, at first, to be a larger irrationality -- an almost inconsequential attitude to the problems of developing and sustaining actions and arguments." (22)		:"No other poem of the alliterative tradition combines so distinctively rational procedure (in the verse paragraph, the individual speech or episode) with what appears, at first, to be a larger irrationality -- an almost inconsequential attitude to the problems of developing and sustaining actions and arguments." (22)

			manuals on preaching and writing sermons common in late medieval period; focus on balance between beauty and usefulness (Ciceronian triple aim of rhetoric -- docere, movere, delectare)
			* Langland drawing on this tradition

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Salter, Elizabeth. ''Piers Plowman: An Introduction.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.

''Piers Plowman'' has been read as a sermon, or as medieval religious allegory

we need to be more sensitive to it as ''art'', the product of a creative imagination

poem's art is "part of a larger web of allegorical significances, which Langland can only help us to understand if we will accept the initial premise -- a potential though fluctuating richness of connected meanings" (9)

popular in its own tiem; over 50 manuscripts from c14-15, and printed four times before 1561 (12)

by early c16, was pilloried for social/religious satire, used (ironically) to support the Reformation

'''alliterative verse''': aligns Langland with medieval poets from west and north of England who inherited alliterative tradition from pre-Conquest times, used it in preference to French metres (13); display or rhetorical flourishes, not concealment (17)
* Langland does not give "alliteration the dominance it so often has in other contemporary works" (22)

:"No other poem of the alliterative tradition combines so distinctively rational procedure (in the verse paragraph, the individual speech or episode) with what appears, at first, to be a larger irrationality -- an almost inconsequential attitude to the problems of developing and sustaining actions and arguments." (22)