Word: ploughman
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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Langley was educated for the church, and lived his whole life as an inferior ecclesiastic. He was extremely poor, extremely proud, and exceedingly wroth at the wickedness of the world. His one work, "Piers the Ploughman" is a keen and daring satire on the state of society and religion in England, full of merciless sarcasm and incisive irony in the dissoluteness of the clergy and the vanity...