HENRYSON, ROBERT

c.1425–c.1506, Scottish poet. It is thought that he was a schoolmaster at Dunfermline Abbey. His principal poem is The Testament of Cresseid, which was written as a harshly moral epilogue to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. In Henryson's version the heroine dies a destitute leper. Partly because of this poem, Henryson has been called a Scottish Chaucerian. That his temper is more Scottish than Chaucerian is shown by the dry, macabre humor of such pieces as the Moral Fables of Æsop. Other notable works include Orpheus and Eurydice and Robene and Makyne.

See edition of his work by H. H. Wood (rev. ed. 1958, repr. 1968); study by J. MacQueen (1967).

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Robert Henryson
Book by Marshall W. Stearns; Columbia University Press, 1949
Subjects: Henryson, Robert--1430?-1506?
Chapter I THE POETRY AND LIFE OF ROBERT HENRYSON THE REPUTATION OF ROBERT HENRYSON is still in the process of being established...ff. 3 G. G. Smith, ed., The Poems of Robert Henryson , STS, I, xiii and note. 4 J. R. Lowell...
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Complete and Full with Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson
Book by John MacQueen; Rodopi, 2006
Subjects: Henryson, Robert--1430?-1506?--Criticism And Interpretation
Introduction 1. Henryson: Life, Times and Works The working life of Robert Henryson occupied the middle to late years of the fifteenth...fifteenth centuries and it is at least plausible that Henryson projected elements of himself onto a character...
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The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson, Schoolmaster of Dunfermline
Book by H. Harvey Wood, Robert Henryson; Oliver and Boyd, 1933
Subjects: Poetry
...attributed it confidently to Henryson. There is no reason why one...the authorship is given to Henryson. The present title appears...Asloan MS. , appears Master Robert Hendersonis dreme, On fut...Bibliography , made a vague claim for Henryson of several unidentified religious...
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'Heaven-Taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet
Book by Robert Crawford; Tuckwell Press, 2003
Subjects: Burns, Robert--1759-1796--Books And Reading, Fergusson, Robert--1750-1774--Criticism And Interpretation, Scotland--In Literature, Scotland--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Scotland--Poetry
...189, 194 Galt, John 45 Gao, Greg 223 Garioch, Robert 9, 16, 48, 90, 181- 95, 210 Gariochs Repone til...69 Henderson, Hamish 49 Henley, W. E. 69-70 Henryson, Robert 222 Herbert, W.N. 9, 199-205 Herd, David 8...
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Pride and Passion: Robert Burns, 1759-1796
Book by Delancey Ferguson; Oxford University Press, 1939
Subjects: Burns, Robert--1759-1796
...Elizabethan era the student of British literature must look north of the Tweed to find, in the writings of King James I, Robert Henryson, Gawain Douglas and William Dunbar, anything worthy the name of poetry. The decay of Scots as a literary language...
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Complete and Full with Numbers: the Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson
Journal article by Alessandra Petrina; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 34, 2009
...Numbers: the Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson by Alessandra Petrina MacQueen...Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi...epithet of Scottish Chaucerians), Robert Henryson (1425?-1506?) emerges as...
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Making Mention of Aesop: Henryson's Fable of the Two Mice
Journal article by Gillian Rudd; Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Fables--Criticism and interpretation, Henryson, Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation
...3) The Poems of Robert Henryson, ed. by Denton Fox...Aesop with reference to Henryson in his introduction...p. 161, and Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature...see Douglas Gray, Robert Henryson, Medieval and Renaissance...
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Robert Henryson's "orpheus and Eurydice" and Its Sources
Journal article by Alessandra Petrina; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 33, 2008
Robert Henrysons "orpheus and Eurydice" and Its Sources by Alessandra Petrina Robert Henryson (1425P-1506?), a Scottish poet and...and striking, but the invention of what Henryson calls "ane uther quair" (that is...
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Robert Henryson's "morall Fabilles": Irony, Allegory, and Humanism in Late-medieval Fables
Journal article by John Marlin; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 34, 2009
Robert Henrysons "morall Fabilles...commentary upon the work; Henryson and his readers would have...1391-97). Moreover, Henryson does more than append commentary...As George Clark notes, As Henryson recreated them, his Aesopic...
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Children and Literature in Medieval England
Journal article by Nicholas Orme; Medium Aevum, Vol. 68, 1999
Subjects: Children's literature--History, English literature, 1100-1485 (Middle English period)--Social aspects, Literature, Medieval--England
...particular by the thirteenth.(71) Robert Grossetestes Latin poem Stans...and thirteen stories in verse by Robert Henryson, produced in Scotland late in...Hartung, IX; The Poems of Robert Henryson, ed. Denton Fox (Oxford, 1981...
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Scot Press: As Scotland Celebrates Five Hundred Years of Printing, Martin Moonie's Investigations into the Earliest Printed Books in Scots Leads Him on a Trail to Paris
Magazine article by Martin Moonie; History Today, Vol. 58, June 2008
Subjects: Book printing--History, Scottish history
...Renaissance king James IV, with the poetry of poets such as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas among its greatest...in the eighteenth century. It contains pieces by Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, together with material from the...
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Ballads of a Nation
Magazine article by Christopher Harvie; History Today, Vol. 49, September 1999
Subjects: Scotland--Politics and government, Scottish National Party--Political activity, United Kingdom--Politics and government
...home of English literature -- with Dunbar, Montgomerie and Henryson. The Scottish Reformation was led by intellectuals ultraradical...celebrate - and warn. One twentieth-century Scots poet, Robert Garioch, nailed the arrogance of all politicians, monarchs...


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Famous Seamus Does a Fellow Poet Proud
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 4, 2009
Subjects: Heaney, Seamus, Henryson, Robert, Poets
...LEZARD THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID AND SEVEN FABLES by Robert Henryson, transl ated by Seamus Heaney (Faber, pounds sterling12...much, or indeed anything, about the Scottish poet Robert Henryson. The name may be familiar if you remember William...
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Why I'd Be Fair Trauchled by Demise of Scots
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 23, 2008
...even if our first great poets, Robert Henryson and William Dunbar,called the...a language for poetry, although Robert Burns himself wrote that hispoems...her faithers race with death in Robert Louis Stevensons Weir ofHermiston...
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS: OBITUARY - Prof Jonathan Words Worth
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 29, 2006
Subjects: Poets--Analysis, Wordsworth, William--Death of
...Oxford, where he graduated with a first class honours degree in English to which he added a DPhil for his study of Robert Henryson, the medieval Scottish poet celebrated for his version of Aesops Fables and The Testament of Cresseid, a sequel...
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Men Honored for Alerting Family to Fire
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 12, 2008
...departments medal of honor were Lt. Robert F. Smith and firefighter John...emergency response: Virgil Beard, Robert Bradbury, Leland Danhauer...Fortin, Richard Gross, Ken Henryson, Jeff Homuth, Eric Hopp...Hryniewicz, Sandy Pezzullo, Robert Brosnan and Christy Ulrich...
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Recent Home and Property Sales Algonquin Carpentersville Cary Elgin Fox River Grove Huntley Lake in the Hills Pingree Grove South Elgin West Dundee
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 5, 2010
...24, by Randall R. Higel to Robert G. McQueen and Karen T. McQueen...sold Aug. 24, by Kevin W. Henryson to Omar Orozco and Judy Orozco...Bank of New York Mellon to Robert L. Martens. $310,000...Aug. 24, by Peter Lais to Robert S. Klein and Amy G Sussna...
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encyclopedia articles on: Henryson Robert  - 2 results

 
 
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Henryson, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HENRYSON, ROBERT c.1425 c.1506, Scottish poet. It is thought that he was a schoolmaster...version the heroine dies a destitute leper. Partly because of this poem, Henryson has been called a Scottish Chaucerian. That his temper is more Scottish...
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Middle English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Hoccleve . Other poets of the time include Stephen Hawes and Alexander Barclay and the Scots poets William Dunbar , Robert Henryson , and Gawin Douglas . The poetry of John Skelton , which is mostly satiric, combines medieval and Renaissance elements...


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