Robert Henryson, The Complete Works
By (author) Robert Henryson Edited by David J. Parkinson
Paperback (Published)
(January 2011)
ISBN: 9781580441391
7.01 x 10 inches
Price: $24.95
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In this new edition of the poems of Robert Henryson, David Parkinson offers editions of Henryson’s Fables, The Testament of Cresseid, Orpheus and Eurydice and twelve shorter poems, grouped according to the strength of their attribution to Henryson, as well as the glosses and explanatory and textual notes characteristic of Middle English Texts Series volumes. Henryson was a prominent Scottish poet writing in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. This edition serves as an excellent addition to the Scots language and late medieval Scottish poetry.
Introduction Fables Prologue The Cock and the Jasp The Two Mice The Cock and the Fox The Fox and the Wolf The Trial of the Fox The Sheep and the Dog The Lion and the Mouse The Preaching of the Swallow The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger The Fox, the Wolf, and the Husbandman The Wolf and the Wether The Wolf and the Lamb The Paddock and the Mouse The Testament of Cresseid Orpheus and Eurydice Shorter Poems: Stronger Attributions Against Hasty Credence The Annunciation Sum Practysis of Medecyne The Ressoning betwix Aige and Yowth Robene and Makyne The Bludy Serk The Garmont of Gud Ladeis The Praise of Age Shorter Poems: Weaker Attributions The Abbey Walk Ane Prayer for the Pest The Ressoning betwix Deth and Man The Thre Deid Pollis Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix: Sir Francis Kynaston's Anecdote about the Death of Robert Henryson,
Introduction
Prologue
The Cock and the Jasp
The Two Mice
The Cock and the Fox
The Fox and the Wolf
The Trial of the Fox
The Sheep and the Dog
The Lion and the Mouse
The Preaching of the Swallow
The Fox, the Wolf, and the Cadger
The Fox, the Wolf, and the Husbandman
The Wolf and the Wether
The Wolf and the Lamb
The Paddock and the Mouse
Against Hasty Credence
The Annunciation
Sum Practysis of Medecyne
The Ressoning betwix Aige and Yowth
Robene and Makyne
The Bludy Serk
The Garmont of Gud Ladeis
The Praise of Age
The Abbey Walk
Ane Prayer for the Pest
The Ressoning betwix Deth and Man
The Thre Deid Pollis
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Appendix: Sir Francis Kynaston's Anecdote about the Death of Robert Henryson
- By (author) Robert Henryson
- Edited by David J. Parkinson
"Parkinson's Complete Works of Henryson . . . opens with an introudctory essay detailing the fourteen manuscript and early printed-edition witnesses he uses to establish Henryson's texts. He also reviews another eight manuscripts and editions, including Denton Fox's standard modern critical edition. In a useful introduction to Scots, the dialect of English spoken and written in southern and eastern Scotland, he then reviews the basic features of Henryson's language: lexicon, grammar, pronunciation, verse, and style. Parkinson concludes his introduction with a brief discussion of his editorial policy, rationale for selecting particular witnesses for each text, and alterations he made regarding spelling and punctuation. Students and teachers would find Parkinson's accessible discussion of Henryson's language transferable to other Scots texts, and his review of textual witnesses and editorial choices instructive for understanding the craft of modern editing. In the edition itself, Parkinson offers edited versions of Henryson's major works- the Fables, the Testament of Cresseid, Orpheus and Eurydice- eight shorter poems of 'strong attribution,' and four poems of 'weaker attribution.' In each case, as Parkinson notes, the poem 'appears in the form of a manuscript or print that has been selected for the completeness and consistency of its text and the clarity of its representation of Middle Scots.' . . . In this editing principle . . . he gravitates to late witnesses rather than early ones for his base texts, and he punctuates lightly, following an observation that 'Henryson's sentences tend to involve coordination rather than subordination.' . . . Following standard TEAMS practice in presenting the text, Parkinson includes end-line glossing to faciliate reading, a full set of explanatory notes with a brief introductory comment on each text, and a full set of textual notes. . . . An extenseive bibliograpy and a brief glossary of Henryson's word-hoard (mostly a list of 'false friends' that pose difficulty because of their similarity to common modern English words) round out the book." --William F. Hodapp, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota
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Two Middle English Prayer Cycles
Holkham, "Prayers and Meditations" and Simon Appulby, "Fruyte of Redempcyon"
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 1
The Debate Poems: Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaigne, Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre, Le Lay de Plour
Sentimental and Humorous Romances
Floris and Blancheflour, Sir Degrevant, The Squire of Low Degree, The Tournament of Tottenham, and The Feast of Tottenham
The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf
A Dual-Language Edition from Latin and Middle English Printed Editions
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