[PDF.28ul] The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

[PDF.gs09] The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

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 | #1268275 in Books |  2010-09-28 |  2010-09-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.2 x5.00l,.60 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Rhetoric meets roguery|By John L Murphy|A middle-aged man contemplates the aftermath of Chaucer's tragic Cresseid. Abandoned by Troilus after she dallied with Diomede, did she deserve the contempt with which she was treated in this tale from the Trojan war? Henryson defends her, and his serious consideration attracts Heaney to revive from his "mid-Ulster" upbringing the speech|From Publishers Weekly|Nobel laureate Heaney's new versions of very old narrative poems are unlikely to make the same worldwide splash as his Beowulf, but they remain moving and memorable. Misfortune and fortune, repentance and retribution, pity and prudence, an

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 ...

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