The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables by Robert Henryson
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

Robert Henryson

The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables

Robert Henryson with Seamus Heaney (Translator)

183 pages first pub 1500 (view editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous slow-paced
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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 is th...

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