William Langland, A New Translation with Introduction and Notes by Michael Calabrese. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2020, xlvii, 160 pp.

One of the main criteria to determine the true status and quality of a literary work easily proves to be the number of translations into various languages. Of course, there are also some literary masterpieces both in the past and the present which remain in the shadow of public awareness, tend to be forgotten, or are simply not understood. But when a work like William Langland’s