The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson, Schoolmaster of Dunfermline

Title

en_US The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson, Schoolmaster of Dunfermline

Description

en_US Language note: Scots

en_US Edited from the Earliest Manuscripts and Printed Texts by H. Harvey Wood

Creator

en_US Henryson, Robert See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:44Z

en_US 2013-09

en_US 1978

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1978

Abstract

en_US This paperback is a facsimile reprint of portions of the earlier hardbound edition published by Oliver and Boyd in 1933. I have their second edition, revised, from 1958. What seems to have been left behind includes the frontispiece, dedication, preface, and T of C. This book acknowledges that it is Reprinted from the 1933 edition by kind permission of Oliver and Boyd. There are at least two illustrations in this paperback volume: a photocopy of the prolog facing xiv and a photocopy of the page beginning The Taill of the Cok and the Iasp facing 5. The latter page's illustration also appears on the book's cover. The photocopy of Henryson's title-page as frontispiece is not included in this volume, as it was in the hardbound version in 1958. I wrote these things on that 1958 edition of mine. I have not taken time to read through Henryson's work this time, as I did with the following more recent edition of his work: The Moral Fables of Aesop by Robert Henryson. An Edition of the Middle Scots Text, with a Facing Prose Translation, Introduction, and Notes by George D. Gopen (1987). Let me limit myself here to pointing out the portions of this work that someone interested in fables may find most helpful. In the introduction, xix-xxiv are devoted to fables. The prologue and thirteen fables themselves are on 1-102. A short appendix on 217 has to do with the printing of the book. The commentary dealing with the fables runs from 225 to 251. The book closes with an extensive glossary.

Identifier

en_US 9931 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76741

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US James Thin the Mercat Press,

en_US Edinburgh

Subject

en_US PR1990.H4 1978 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