The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables - 9780374532451

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The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. Henryson's finest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of Scots literature, is the narrative Testament of Cresseid. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, the Testament completes the story of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, offering a tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover, Diomede, and of her subsequent decline into prostitution and leprosy. Written in Middle Scots, a distinctive northern version of English, the Testament has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident but faithful idiom that matches the original verse form and honors the poem's unique blend of detachment and compassion.

A master of high narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable, and his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are delicately pointed with irony. Seven of the Fables are here sparklingly translated by Heaney, their freshness rendered to the last claw and feather. Together, The Testament of Cresseid and Seven

This book title, The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables - 9780374532451, ISBN: 9780374532451, by Robert Henryson, Seamus Heaney, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (September 28, 2010) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Robert Henryson, Seamus Heaney
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (September 28, 2010)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780374532451
ISBN-10:
0374532451
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8.16oz
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5" x 8" x 0.47"
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42
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