Piers Plowman · English Literature

Who is traditionally identified as the author of Piers Plowman?

  1. Geoffrey Chaucer, court poet
  2. William Langland, clerical poet
  3. John Gower, poet and moralist
  4. The Pearl Poet, anonymous author
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Correct answer: William Langland, clerical poet

Piers Plowman is traditionally attributed to William Langland, a clerical writer from the West Midlands. Linguistic, thematic, and manuscript evidence supports this attribution, though the author's identity cannot be stated with absolute certainty.

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