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Author: Seamus Heaney
Number of Pages: 208 pages
Published Date: 04 Jun 2009
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9780571249282
File size: 16 Mb
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The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makers, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands, is the narrative "Testament" of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy. A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the "Testament" has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet faithful modern English idiom which honors the poem's unique blend of detachment and compassion. A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable; his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are traced with delicate comedy and irony. Seven of the Fables are here sparklingly translated; their burlesque freshness rendered to the last claw and feather. "Seven Fables and The Testament of Cresseid" is an extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging encounter between two poets across six centuries.
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Author: Seamus Heaney
Number of Pages: 208 pages
Published Date: 04 Jun 2009
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9780571249282
File size: 16 Mb
File Name: The.Testament.of.Cresseid.and.Seven.Fables.Translated.by.Seamus.Heaney.pdf
Download Link: The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables Translated by Seamus Heaney
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The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makers, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands, is the narrative "Testament" of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, which completes the story of Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", offering a grim and tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomede, and her decline into prostitution and leprosy. A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the "Testament" has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet faithful modern English idiom which honors the poem's unique blend of detachment and compassion. A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable; his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are traced with delicate comedy and irony. Seven of the Fables are here sparklingly translated; their burlesque freshness rendered to the last claw and feather. "Seven Fables and The Testament of Cresseid" is an extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging encounter between two poets across six centuries.
Read online The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables : Translated by Seamus Heaney Buy and read online The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables : Translated by Seamus Heaney Download and read The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables : Translated by Seamus Heaney for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables : Translated by Seamus Heaney ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent