Robert Henryson is the greatest of the English fabulists. His
master may have been Aesop, but the voice that speaks the 'Moral
Fables'is distinctively that of his place - Scotland - and his
chosen tradition. His debt to Chaucer, from whom his best-known
work, the 'Testament of Cresseid', clearly derives, is a large one,
and he acknowledges it generously. But it is a positive debt, not
the kind that might have stifled his native originality. He is as
distinctly himself as his contemporaries Dunbar and Douglas are.
Little is known of Henryson's life but much can be surmised about
his humane vision from the poems, particularly the 'Moral Fables'.
He is the most approachable and benign of the Scottish poets of his
time. In this selection of the best of Henryson's work W.R.J.
Barron, Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of
Manchester, includes a full critical introduction and notes.
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