Item
Robert Henryson: The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
- Title
- en_US Robert Henryson: The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: Scots/English
- en_US Original language: sco
- en_US First printing
- en_US Robert Henryson; translated by Seamus Heaney
- Creator
- en_US Heaney, Seamus See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:10:36Z
- en_US 2011-11
- en_US 2010
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:10:36Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2010
- Abstract
- en_US This sturdy paperback includes seven of Henryson's thirteen fables, nicely translated, to judge from the first two, CJ and TMCM. Scots and English are presented on facing left and right pages, respectively. TMCM is particularly charming. The town mouse says to the country mouse that her own town Good Friday beats her sister's Easter Sunday. At the town meal they are mice and not humans and so they do not take any wine. Perhaps in the same spirit they do not say grace before the meal The first disruption is from a steward. The second comes from a cat who all but kills the country mouse before the latter can escape between the drapes and the wall. Other fables here include LM, The Preaching of the Swallow, The Fox, the Wolf and the Carter; The Fox, the Wolf and the Farmer; and FM. Henryson's fables are full of allusion and detail and extend at times to twelve pages per fable. The hardbound version was apparently first published in 2009.
- Identifier
- en_US 9780571249664
- en_US 7576 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Faber and Faber
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PR1990.H4 T4 2010 See all items with this value
- en_US Robert Henryson See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books