The Moral Fables of Aesop by Robert Henryson

Title

en_US The Moral Fables of Aesop by Robert Henryson

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: Scots/English

en_US George D. Gopen

Creator

en_US Gopen, George D.

Date

2016-01-25T15:15:35Z

en_US 1991-06

en_US 1987

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:15:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1571

Abstract

en_US A first-rate piece of scholarship that puts Henryson within our reach. Very readable versions of the 13 fables. Henryson's morals are strongly allegorical and (like the fables) lengthy, but the stories are well done, especially The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger ; The Fox, the Wolf, and the Farmer ; and The Wolf and the Wether. Clever Lawrence the fox outwits everyone. There is strong, eloquent social criticism, e.g. concerning the sheep misaccused by the dog before the wolf. At times Henryson is preachy, e.g. about the maids that sweep a jewel out of the house just to get the floor clean! There is fun in the stories, as when the fox with a penance of no meat during Lent takes a kid to water and brings him out a salmon, or the frightened wolf defecates three times when pursued by (a wether disguised as) a dog. Many mice come to help the roped-in lion. WL is less well done; I think I might have killed that talky lawyerlike lamb myself!

Identifier

en_US 0707305055 (pbk)

en_US 569 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75362

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Scottish Academic Press

en_US Notre Dame, ID

Subject

en_US PR1990.H4 M6 1987

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole