Robert Henryson's "Orpheus and Eurydice" and Its Sources

Fifteenth Century Studies | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Robert Henryson (1425P-1506?), a Scottish poet and schoolmaster, remained fairly independent when imitating Chaucer in his The Testament of Cresseid; but the Scotsman's stanzas are often as harmonious as his master's. Unlike the Testament or Henryson's Morall Fabillis (late 1480s, inspired by Aesop), texts which have enjoyed critical attention, Orpheus andEurydicehas suffered relative neglect in modern studies. Thus Harriet H. Wood damns the work with faint praise by calling it "the most ambitious, but not the most successful" among Henryson's poems," while John MacQueen, who has worked most ...

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