Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature

Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland''s fourteenth-century dream vision. These concerns converge in the poem''s rich vocabulary of kynde, the familiar Middle English word for nature, broadly construed. But in a remarkable coinage, Langland also uses kynde to name nature''s creator, who appears as a character in...