The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands, is the narrative Testament of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy. A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the Testament has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet faithful modern English idiom which honours the poem's unique blend of detachment and compassion.
A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable; his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are traced with delicate comedy and irony. Seven of the Fables are here sparklingly translated; their burlesque freshness rendered to the last claw and feather. Seven Fables and The Testament of Cresseid is an extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging encounter between two poets across six centuries.
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Book Description Condition: New. 2009. Main. Hardcover. Presents the narrative "Testament" of Cresseid that was set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy. Translator(s): Heaney, Seamus. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322 183pp. Keywords: Robert Henryson. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # 9780571249282
Book Description Condition: New. 2009. Main. Hardcover. Presents the narrative "Testament" of Cresseid that was set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy. Translator(s): Heaney, Seamus. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322 183pp. Keywords: Robert Henryson. . . . . Seller Inventory # 9780571249282
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First trade edition 2009, first thus in this translation, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Published by Faber & Faber, UK. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, sharp corners, no marrkings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ as new, bright, no edgewear, no tears no chips, price not clipped. Small 8vo, XIX + 183 pages. Seller Inventory # 004560
Book Description HARDCOVER. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 8vo in black boards, gilt lettering to spine, 183pp. First printing of Heaney's translation CONDITION: NEW unread and unmarked copy in NEW complete Dust Jacket ] ._ __To see more of our Poetry books type DbbPOETRY in the Keywords search box._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS. Seller Inventory # T17N1216