The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables
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 Testa…
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Weitere Autoren: Heaney, Seamus (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-27348-4
- EAN: 9780374273484
- Produktnummer: 5007572
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 183 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.5 cm 376 g
- Gewicht: 376
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Robert Henryson; Translated by Seamus Heaney
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