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The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

- Translated by Seamus Heaney
Af: Seamus Heaney, Robert Henryson Engelsk Paperback

The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

- Translated by Seamus Heaney
Af: Seamus Heaney, Robert Henryson Engelsk Paperback
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The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, 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 Testament of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer''s Troilus and Criseyde, 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 Testament 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.

A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable; his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are traced with delicate comedy and irony. Seven of the Fables are here sparklingly translated; their burlesque freshness rendered to the last claw and feather. Seven Fables and The Testament of Cresseid is an extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging encounter between two poets across six centuries.

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The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, 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 Testament of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer''s Troilus and Criseyde, 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 Testament 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.

A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable; his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are traced with delicate comedy and irony. Seven of the Fables are here sparklingly translated; their burlesque freshness rendered to the last claw and feather. Seven Fables and The Testament of Cresseid is an extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging encounter between two poets across six centuries.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9780571249664
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0571249663
Kategori: Antikken & Middelalder
Udg. Dato: 1 apr 2010
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 1 apr 2010
Forfatter(e): Seamus Heaney, Robert Henryson
Forfatter(e) Seamus Heaney, Robert Henryson

Kategori Antikken & Middelalder

ISBN-13 9780571249664

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 129mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 1 apr 2010

Oplagsdato 1 apr 2010

Forlag Faber & Faber

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