In which century was Piers Plowman written ?
Correct answer: A. 14th
- A. 14th
- B. 12th
- C. 10th
- D. 11th
Explanation
William Langland’s allegorical poem Piers Plowman was written in the fourteenth century, probably in successive versions from the 1360s onward. Its dream-vision form places it among the major Middle English poems of that century.
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