Talk by J. A. W. Bennett , Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford Dr. Bennett gives an interpretation of Piers Plowman that shows Langland's affinities to medieval theologians and philosophers. He suggests, however, that Langland m'ay not have been a learned man, and that he may be called a philosophic ' poet chiefly by virtue of his deep poetic insight into some of the central affirmations of Christianity and medieval teaching.
Second of a series of talks