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Se25a: "Teach this to the ignorant, for the learned know it already: Truth is the most perfect treasure on earth." William Langland. "Piers the ploughman" About 1377

GraceHammanPhD: I love this question. For me, it was William Langland's Piers Plowman. Took me so many tries to begin to grasp its internal logic and strange beauty.

chilledhazlenut: All would be well if the different orders of society would do their duty. ~ William Langland

qctimes: In sports as in life, sometimes you have to wait. There is a reason the phrase credited to medieval English writer William Langland in his circa 1370s poem “Piers Plowman”

thehistoryguy: 'So it is nowadays. The labourer is angry unless he gets high wages.' William Langland, poet, 14th century.

stephenharlinmd: "Patience is a virtue." Poet William Langland, 1360

pbackwriter: The earliest recorded use of the tactic I can find is recorded in a 14th century English poem written by William Langland. Piers Plowman includes a line referring to innkeepers offering customers a “a tast for nought” to entice them to drink at their pubs.

jjpb15: Patience is a Virtue. So said the 14th century English poet, William Langland. And, boy have I been patient. However, this year I’ve just realized that to my knowledge, I’ve yet to receive the “better luck next year” email… 2/3

LordHelpMe35: We all need the poem “The Vision of Piers Plowman” by William Langland

Youngbul3: Patience is a virtue - William Langland

sarah_salemy: I was so stressed about my comprehension exam only to see Langland’s “Piers Plowman” (which I’m literally taking a course on rn), William Wordsworth’s “Lucy” (favorite romantic poet), and an excerpt from Faulkner (I read “As I Lay Dying” in undergrad). Totally killed it!

tommurphE: and he sees which way we cast our eyes, and whether we love the lords of the earth before the Lord of Heaven." - from "Piers the Ploughman," by William Langland, (c.1332-c.1386) (2/2)

fodge_j: “All the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped into the sea.” - William Langland

VillarinoJl: William Langland: "There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame."

AncientWisdomHQ: "There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame." - William Langland

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SE25A: "Teach this to the ignorant, for the learned know it already: Truth is the most perfect treasure on earth." William Langland. "Piers the ploughman" About 1377

MarkRainycity: “Patience is a virtue” Patience is a virtue, a phrase believed to have originated from the poem “Piers Plowman,” written in 136O by English poet William Langland

SE25A: "Teach this to the ignorant, for the learned know it already: Truth is the most perfect treasure on earth." William Langland. "Piers the ploughman" About 1377

b2l_Literature: In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and profound close reading of the final version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman, the most sea...

danielmitsuiart: This drawing of the veneration of the Holy Cross references verses from The Vision of Piers Plowman, an alliterative Middle English poem attributed to William Langland. The text written in alternating red and blue letters around the inner border of the drawing is:

ericweiskott: there isn’t another Middle English author for whom a spotlight webinar would be a conceivable method of announcing an archival discovery. Or is there? A directly analogous new-life-records article on William Langland will appear in this year’s Yearbook of Langland Studies…

joshbuermann: Which begged the question of whether White made the original argument about class division being exacerbated by the chimney which was invented to address climate change. White credited prior art to his student Leroy Dresbeck and William Langland's "Piers Plowman", of 1377.

EdgardLemaire: "In a somer seson, Whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes As I a sheep weere, In habite as an heremite Unholy of werkes, Wente wide in this world Wondres to here; Ac on a May morwenynge On Malverne hilles Me bifel a ferly, Of fairye me thoghte..." - William Langland

AsadullahMirani: “Like father like son. Every good tree maketh good fruits.” — William Langland Abbu ♥️

PiersPlowmanB: How many of you have ever felt personally victimized by William Langland?

LisaEva03392155: Except for the speculation about William Langland's identity (and that of his wife and daughter). Ditto whether Thomas Malory being a convicted rapist influenced (or didn't) his works. Or, y'know, whether =The Kingis Quair= is autobiographical. Or Chaucer being a courtier.

beyonderisdead: William Langland said, “…our guilt it grinds good men to dust.” That’s a fact.

abaddon1215: "And then he suffered him to sin so that he might know sorrow, and thus know what well-being is--to be aware of it naturally." -William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman

nekomatapoetry: In AD 1377, William Langland makes a throwaway reference to the "rymes of Robyn hood". It's the first time we hear about this legend. It most certainly isn't the last. By 1600, there are over two hundred references to Robin Hood.

Poetry_Daily: Today's Featured Poet: Mark Kyungsoo Bias is a recipient of the 2022 Joseph Langland Prize and the 2020 William Matthews Poetry Prize. He holds an MFA and Film Certificate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was a REAL Fellow.

AndrewTRoycroft: In ‘Piers Plowman’, 14thC poet William Langland reflected on the religious/political corruption of his day noting changes in climate that made him sense all was not right in the world. He wrote in the space between world ravaging plague & unprecedented social/political upheaval.

RealTracyMyers: After a week of failed attempts, I finally got my son to stop long enough for us to take a picture together before dinner on our last night in the Dominican Republic. ❤️ “Like father like son: Every good tree maketh good fruits." - William Langland Oh…and good morning! ☀️

acrimonyand: (William Langland) is the Catholic Englishman par excellence…a man in whom the Catholic faith and national feeling are fused in a single flame…and to understand his work is to know English religion in its most autochthonous and yet most Catholic form. - Christopher Dawson

radical__middle: ADVICE FROM A FRIEND “Counsel me, Nature, what craft is best to learn." "Learn to love," said Nature, "and leave all else behind." -- William Langland, PIERS PLOWMAN

ericweiskott: my student Joon Park and I coauthored a note about condescension in William Langland's poetry thru the origin-unknown verb ARATEN "scold," whose first recorded use in English is in Piers Plowman B free eprint:

plastic_bio: For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule, It is in cloistre or in scole. - William Langland

Tony2Gloves: “But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea." ― William Langland

EfjusikayOuefef: Well, as they say; “Like father like son: Every good tree maketh good fruits.” – William Langland.

AbuBaka82198759: "When life shows you a hundred reasons to cry, Show life that You have a thousand reasons to smile." William Langland

Arthaus1989: "Like Father Like Son: Every good tree maketh good fruits" - William Langland

maebhhowell: gonna get plowed by a man called piers just to prove william langland right x

EfjusikayOuefef: “Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.” ~ William Langland.

RC_Archive: Built for ironmaster Henry Crawshay in 1856 (son of William Crawshay II of Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfil), Langland was turned into a hotel, then in 1922 sold to the Workingmen’s Club&Institute Union for use as a convalescent home

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SE25A: "Most people who pass through this world wish for nothing better than worldly success: the only heaven they think about is on earth. " William Langland. "Piers the ploughman" About 1377

SE25A: "Teach this to the ignorant, fir the learned know it already: Truth is the most perfect treasure on earth." William Langland. "Piers the ploughman" About 1377

SE25A: "Lady Fee" would get anything, arrange anything, for money. "Fee said that for her part she would always be faithful to them, get them titles & obtain seats for them in the Bishop's Court." William Langland. "Piers the ploughman" About 1377

SE25A: "You could tell by the way they talked that their tongues were more tuned to lying than telling the truth, no matter what tale they told" William Langland. "Piers the ploughman" About 1377

baowang_: “Patience is a virtue.” - William Langland

ktreadwell: William Langland, “Piers Plowman, Passus XVIII”

PiersPlowmanB: Good Friday in William Langland's Piers Plowman B.XVIII.46-65 “Crucifige!” quod a cachepol, “I warante hym a wicche!” “Tolle, tolle!” quod another, and took of kene thornes, And bigan of grene thorn a garland to make, And sette it sore on his heed (1/5)

SimonMarcos_PH: Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits. -William Langland

C_Blaauwendraad: Sebastian Langdell is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Baylor University. He works primarily on later medieval literature, and his research interests include: Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, William Langland, fifteenth-century poetry...

staya9791: “Like father like son: Every good tree maketh good fruits.” – William Langland.

patrick_ha: Quote of the day :- from ‘Piers Plowman’ B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) Passus 20, l. 48 by William Langland

patrick_ha: Quote of the day :- from ‘Piers Plowman’ B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) Passus 18, l. 411 (Pees Peace) by William Langland

patrick_ha: Quote of the day :- from ‘Piers Plowman’ B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) Passus 17, l. 289 by William Langland

patrick_ha: Quote of the day :- from ‘Piers Plowman’ B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) Passus 11, l. 378 by William Langland

KarlSteel: Real William Langland energy here

patrick_ha: Quote of the day :- from ‘Piers Plowman’ B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) Passus 3, l. 79; by William Langland

GraceHammanPhD: "and all the wickedness in the world a man might work or think / is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea" -William Langland, Piers Plowman

patrick_ha: Quote of the day :- from ‘Piers Plowman’ B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) prologue l. 17 by William Langland

patrick_ha: Quote of the day :- from ‘Piers Plowman’ B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) prologue l. 5 by William Langland

Shopmatic: Have you ever heard the term “patience is a virtue?” That timeless little gem of knowledge was coined back in the 1300’s by the poet William Langland and it still has lots of relevance today.

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smarcorodriguez: Speaking of William Langland, every time I read the transitional verse in Zechariah 4.1, I think about Piers Plowman.

Stylisticienne: In William Langland’s Piers Plowman, the workings of the Holy Trinity can be compared to the making and lighting of a candle: ‘As wex and a weke were twyned togideres [joined together] / And thanne a fyre flaumende [flaming] forth out of bothe’

666thebeastjack: The earliest text that refers to people being at their wit's end is William Langland's Middle English narrative poem The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, 13 Jack 70☢-9☢0we: Astronomyens also aren at hir wittes ende.

thetardigradian: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II: Þanne drede went wiȝtliche · and warned þe fals / And bad hym flee for fere · and his felawes alle.

AnomieGeog: Given recent controversies on here, I note Kathy Lavezzo has a recent piece out which "rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship and fiction in light of his rejection at Oxford of Stuart Hall, who approached him regarding graduate work on William Langland." (!)

RealMargery: William Langland adviseth thus:

softypapa: WASPISH Readily expressing anger or irritation ”This provokes Will’s waspish question, regarding the nature of worldly rule.” - William Langland, 1379

softypapa: “The majority of those who live out their lives on this earth desire nothing better than worldly success and esteem.” -William Langland, 1378

DouginCanberra: Best of the fiction & poetry I read in 2021: William Langland - Piers Plowman Daniel Defoe – A Journal of the Plague Year Francis Spufford – Golden Hill Christos Tsiolkas - Damascus Vasily Grossman – Stalingrad

Caleb70541332: “Patience is the greatest virtue” - William Langland. This was a quote that I tried to live my life with. To this day I still struggle to fully understand this quote. It is because of this misunderstanding is why I feel that I frustrate people around me.

GRACEcom_: Who will bell the cat? - William Langland

GRACEcom_: Who will bell the cat? - William Langland

MattMcGuinness: I love A Matter of Life and Death. It has an eschatology every bit as quirkily English as Stanley Spencer's or William Langland's.

ZVAARI: do you think this is what William Langland envisioned when he first wrote about Robin Hood

metrologist: When the kindness of Constantine gave Holy Church endowments In lands and leases, lordships and servants The Romans heard an angel cry on high above them, “This day dos ecclesiae has drunk venom And all who have Peter’s power are poisoned forever.” William Langland (1332 - 1386)

jksvscuit: “patience is a fair virtue.” -William Langland

cutbellyfatfast: PUBLIC DOMAIN NOVELS : PIERS PLOWMAN BY WILLIAM LANGLAND

BrendonZatirka: William Langland no contest

postmedieval: Lavezzo "rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship and fiction in light of his rejection at Oxford of Stuart Hall, who approached him regarding graduate work on William Langland" + argues "that Tolkien’s white medievalism contains his most deeply felt racist formations"

FCharmaille: But the truth is that if you look at the evidence objectively and without bias, it is most probable that the Gawain-poet was a woman and William Langland was nonbinary. I am pro-men and take no pleasure in reporting this.

CCSCHouston: Today we remember our volunteers who passed away this year. It was our privilege to serve alongside: Charles Langland, Frank Hill, Lillian Rowan, Loren Goens, Randall Grace, Robert Rowan, Sharon Richter, Siju “Sid” Abraham Mathew, Sonya Clark and William Cobb.

NickSCZach: 4 of 5 stars to The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland

RecruitmentBPD: “Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.”-William Langland The Baltimore Police Department is currently hiring Police Officers, Cadets, and Police Officer Laterals. Download the hiring packet and apply at

realRHY7HM: Patience, an incredible word. That I only RECENTLY have been implementing appropriately with success (IMO ofc*)- is truly a virtue. William Langland - "Patience is a virtue", 1375ish. A quote I have heard for 20 years of my existence, the implementation only in the last 30 days.

Courseworkhero1: For this assignment, you will write a 900-1200 word, double-spaced paper focusing on a single sin from Dante’s Purgatorio or William Langland’s Piers Plowman; or, you can compare the portrayal o

plastic_bio: In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were,In habite as an heremite unholy of werkes, Wente wide in this world wondres to here. Ac on a May morwenynge on Malverne hilles Me bifel a ferly, of Fairye me thoghte. - William Langland

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LeVostreGC: Cease from speakinge ill of Middel Englisshe wryteres! William Langland ys A VISIONARYE Margerye Kempe ys YNTENSE John Trevisa ys ERUDITE John Gower The Gawain Poet ys FASCINATINGE

PiersPlowmanB: William Langland: falls asleep next to some river five minutes later:

mrakaashikeiji: 6. Piers Plowman by William Langland, hahaha.

PiersPlowmanB: How many poems do I have to release on Spotify before they make me a “This Is William Langland” playlist?



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