The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables av Seamus Heaney, Robert Henryson

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<p>The greatest of the late medieval Scottish <i>makars</i>, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer''s vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands, is the narrative <b>Testament of Cresseid</b>, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer''s <b>Troilus and Criseyde</b>, offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine''s rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy. A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the <b>Testament</b> has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet faithful modern English idiom which honours the poem''s unique blend of detachment and compassion.<br><br>A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable; his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisd