The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

by Robert Henryson

Book Overview

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"