The Shaping of English Poetry 

Three of the essays in the book concern PPl, and have been published previously: ‘The Meaning of Kind Wit, Conscience and Reason in the First Vision of Piers Plowman‘, Modern Philology, 84 (1987), 351-58 and ‘Langland’s Conception of Favel, Guile, Liar and False in the First Vision of Piers Plowman‘, Neophilologus, 71 (1987), 626-33 (see ‘Annual Bibliography, 1987’, YLS, 2 [1988], items 45 and 46); and ‘The Status and Meaning of Meed in the First Vision of Piers Plowman‘, Neophilologus, 72 (1988), 449-63 (see ‘Annual Bibliography, 1988’, YLS, 3 [1989], item 50).