The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

by Robert Henryson

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374273480

ISBN13:9780374273484

Release Date:October 2009

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

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Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature & Fiction Poetry World Literature

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