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Robert Henryson
1450 - 1505
Robert Henryson
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Primary

The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian

The Testament of Cresseid (1568)

Orpheus and Eurydice

Robene and Makyne

Henryson, Robert. The Poems of Robert Henryson. Ed. Denton Fox. Oxford
English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981.

Robert Henryson, The Testament of Crisseid, ed. by D. Fox (London: Nelson, 1968)

Secondary/Anthology

“The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature” by R. D. S. Jack and P. A. T. Rozendaal (eds.) (2003, vol. 24, no. 2)

Kratzmann, Gregory. "Henryson's Fables: 'the subtell dyte of poetry.'" Studies in Scottish Literature 20 (1985): 49-70.

Machan, Tim William. "Robert Henryson and Father Aesop: Authority in the Moral Fables." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 193-214.

MacQueen, John. Robert Henryson: A Study of the Major Narrative Poems. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1967.

The Response To Religion
Robert Henryson
William Dunbar
Allan Ramsay
Robert Burns
James Hogg
John Galt
George MacDonald
Willa Muir
Sorley Maclean
Alexander Trocchi