Selected Poems
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15th Century
16th Century
A01=Robert Henryson
Author_Robert Henryson
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Scottish
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- ISBN 9780856353017
- Weight: 155g
- Dimensions: 130 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1987
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Robert Henryson (?-1508) is the greatest of the English fabulists. His master may have been Aesop, but the voice that speaks the Moral Fables is distinctively that of his place — Scotland — and his chosen tradition.
His debt to Chaucer, from whom his best-known work, the 'Testament of Cresseid' clearly derives, is a large one, and he acknowledges it generously. But it is a positive debt, not the kind that might have stifled his native originality. He is as distinctively himself as his contemporaries Dunbar and Douglas are.
Little is known of Henryson's life but much can be surmised about his human vision from the poems, particularly the Moral Fables. He is the most approachable and benign of the Scottish poets of his time.
In this selection of the best of Henryson's work W.R.J. Barron, Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Manchester, includes a full introduction and notes.
His debt to Chaucer, from whom his best-known work, the 'Testament of Cresseid' clearly derives, is a large one, and he acknowledges it generously. But it is a positive debt, not the kind that might have stifled his native originality. He is as distinctively himself as his contemporaries Dunbar and Douglas are.
Little is known of Henryson's life but much can be surmised about his human vision from the poems, particularly the Moral Fables. He is the most approachable and benign of the Scottish poets of his time.
In this selection of the best of Henryson's work W.R.J. Barron, Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Manchester, includes a full introduction and notes.
W.R.J. Barron was born in Belfast in 1926. He graduated with a first from St. Andrews University before going on to work as a medievalist at the Universities of Aberdeen and Manchester. His notable works include a student accesible edition of Gawain and the Green Knight.
