{"product_id":"the-testament-of-cresseid-and-seven-fables-paperback","title":"The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Henryson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe greatest of the late medieval Scots \u003ci\u003emakars\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eTestament of Cresseid\u003c\/i\u003e. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, the \u003ci\u003eTestament \u003c\/i\u003ecompletes the story of Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eTestament \u003c\/i\u003ehas been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident but faithful idiom that matches the original verse form and honors the poem's unique blend of detachment and compassion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA master of high narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable, and his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are delicately pointed with irony. Seven of the \u003ci\u003eFables \u003c\/i\u003eare here sparklingly translated by Heaney, their freshness rendered to the last claw and feather. Together, \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Cresseid \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSeven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeamus Heaney\u003c\/b\u003e (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include \u003ci\u003eOpened Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDistrict and Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFinders Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the most important Irish poet since Yeats. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Henryson\u003c\/b\u003e lived in Dunfermline, Scotland, sometime between 1400 and 1500. Counted among the Scots \u003ci\u003emakars\u003c\/i\u003e, he composed his highly inventive verse in Middle Scots. His surviving corpus amounts to fewer than five thousand lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762296127776,"sku":"9780374532451","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6dfdd748a0dc7e4a88596cc1423ce134.webp?v=1780218892","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-testament-of-cresseid-and-seven-fables-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}