The Testament Of Cresseid & Seven Fables (First Edition; First Printing)
Henryson, Robert (Translater by Samus Heaney)
Language: English
Published by Faber and Faber Limited, London, England, 2009
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A fine copy of the faber & faber first printing of the first edition. The book is unread but there is a short .5 cm tear to the the base of the dust jacket bottom corner fold.
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- Title
- The Testament Of Cresseid & Seven Fables (First Edition; First Printing)
- Author
- Henryson, Robert (Translater by Samus Heaney)
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited, London, England
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0571249280
- ISBN 13
- 9780571249282
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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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