Afterword

Abstract

Langland and Chaucer can often be contrasted as illuminatingly as they can be compared. This paper surveys a range of telling differences, covering their use of alliterative poetics; the narratology of long poems; the metaphor of pilgrimage; emotional and devotional affect; traditions of dream poetry; debates and animal fables; social issues and ethics; and the Ploughman’s Tale as a quasi-Langlandian supplement to the Canterbury Tales.