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Many regard Langland's work as a variation on the classic ‘Pilgrim's progress' story for the fourteenth-century Christian. The poem is often called a spiritual autobiography; but this is a simpliste description, the ironical result of the very vividness of Langland's presentation of his dreamer. The poet records a spiritual crisis that he experienced after a disputation with friars in later years. The poem, like Dante's, is certainly in one sense a Pilgrim's Progress--but hardly in Bunyan's sense; it describes not so much a spiritual journey (and journey was the dominant sense of 'progress' in Bunyan's day) as an unfolding, a development, stage by stage, passus by passus.
The form of the poem is that of dream vision, a form in which the author presents the story under the guise of having dreamt it, which was common in medieval literature. The dominant features of dream vision were of love and also of spiritual or religious themes, and Chaucer's first three major pieces were dream...

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Title: Christian Princples And Practices In Piers Plowman
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1. Christian Princples And Practices In Piers Plowman
   

   Christian princples and practices in Piers Plowman. Many regard Langland's
   work as a variation on the classic ‘Pilgrim's progress ...