The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables: Translated by Seamus Heaney
by Seamus Heaney
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- 9780571249282
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About this Item: Faber & Faber, London, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book is a NEW first edition/first printing with a full number line beginning with 1. Priced dust jacket (L12.99) is new. The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson shared their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, as well as the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. His finest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of Scots literture, is the narrative Testament of Cresseid. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War the Testament completes the story of Chaucer's Troilus and Crisyde, offering a tragic account of its faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomedes, and of her subsequent decline into prostitution and leprosy. A master of high narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse fable, and his burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom and delicately pointed with irony. Seven of the fables are here sparkling translated by one of the worlds great poets, Seamus Heaney. Book is new and collectible library quality.
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- The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables: Translated by Seamus Heaney
- Author
- Seamus Heaney
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- Bound in black cloth over boards
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- First Edition/First Printing
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571249280
- ISBN 13
- 9780571249282
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
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- 8vo
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