Robert Henryson (Middle Scots: Robert Henrysoun) was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities. Little is known of his life, but evidence suggests that he was a teacher who had training in law and the humanities, that he had a connection with Dunfermline Abbey and that he may also have been associated for a period with Glasgow University. His poetry was composed in Middle Scots at a time when this was the state language. His writing consists mainly of narrative works. His surviving body of work amounts to almost 5000 lines. (From Wikipedia) More about Robert Henryson:
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| | Books by Robert Henryson: Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?, contrib.: Mediaeval Scottish Poetry: King James the First; Robert Henryson; William Dunbar; Gavin Douglas (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1892), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, also contrib. by King of Scotland James I, William Dunbar, and Gawin Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian, contrib. by Aesop (HTML at Michigan) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The Poems of Robert Henryson, ed. by Robert L. Kindrick (HTML at metseditions.org) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The Testament of Cresseid (HTML at Michigan)
Additional books by Robert Henryson in the extended shelves: Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Aesop's fables. English (Newlie Imprintit at Edinburgh : Be Robert Lekpreuik, at the expensis of Henrie Charteris: and ar to be sauld in his buith, on the north syde of the gait, abone [sic] the throne., Anno. Do. M. D. LXX [1570]), also by Aesop (HTML at EEBO TCP) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Ancient Scottish poems. (Printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran, for John Balfour, 1770), also by George Bannatyne, William Dunbar, and David Dalrymple (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Ancient Scottish poems. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; etc., etc., 1815), also by George Bannatyne, William Dunbar, and David Dalrymple (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The fabulous tales of Esope the Phrygian, compiled moste eloquently in Scottishe metre by Master Robert Henrison, & now lately Englished. ; Euery tale moralized most aptly to this present time, worthy to be read.. ([Im]printed at London : by Richard Smith., Anno. 1577.), also by Aesop and Richard Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Heire begynnis the traitie of Orpheus kyng and how he yeid to hewyn: to hel to seik his quene and ane othir ballad in the lattir end. ([Edinburgh : W. Chepman and A. Myllar, 1508?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Mediaeval Scottish poetry. (Glasgow : William Hodge, 1892., 1892), also by Gawin Douglas, William Dunbar, King of Scotland James I, George Eyre-Todd, and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Mediæval Scottish poetry ... (W. Hodge & co., 1892), also by George Eyre-Todd, Gawin Douglas, William Dunbar, and King of Scotland James I (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Mediaeval Scottish poetry ... (Sands, 1892), also by George Eyre-Todd, Gawin Douglas, William Dunbar, and King of Scotland James I (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: A modernization of Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid (Indiana University, 1945), also by Geoffrey Chaucer and Marshall Winslow Stearns (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The moral fables of Robert Henryson. (Edinburgh, 1832), also by David Irving and Aesop (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The moral fables of Robert Henryson. (AMS Press, 1973) (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The poems and fables of Robert Henryson (W. Paterson, 1865), also by David Laing (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The poems of Robert Henryson (Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1906), also by G. Gregory Smith (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The poems of Robert Henryson; a revised text with various readings, notes, introd., & glossary (A. Gardner, 1917), also by W. M. Metcalfe (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The poems of Robert Henryson. A revised text with various readings, notes, introduction and glossary. (Alexander Gardner, 1917), also by William M. Metcalfe (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: Poems. Revised text with various readings, notes, introd. and glossary (A. Gardner, 1917), also by W. M. Metcalfe (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The testament of Cresseid. (The Porpoise press, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The testament of Cresseid, compylit be M. Robert Henrysone, schulemaister in Dunsermeling. (Henrie Charteris, 1593) (page images at HathiTrust) Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?: The testament of Cresseid, compylit be M. Robert Henrysone, sculemaister in Dunsermeling (Imprentit at Edinburgh : Be Henrie Charteris, M. D. XCIII [1593]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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