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Henryson, Robert

▪ Scottish author
Henryson also spelled  Henderson  
born 1420/30?
died c. 1506

      Scottish poet, the finest of early fabulists in Britain. He is described on some early title pages as schoolmaster of Dunfermline—probably at the Benedictine abbey school—and he appears among the dead poets in William Dunbar's Lament for the Makaris, which was printed about 1508.

      Henryson's longest work is The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian, Compylit in Eloquent & Ornate Scottis, a version of 13 fables based mainly on John Lydgate and William Caxton and running to more than 400 seven-line stanzas. The collection has a prologue, and each tale is adorned with a moralitas. Its virtue lies in the freshness of the narrative, in the sly humour and sympathy of Henryson's animal characterization, and in his miniatures of the Scottish countryside.

      In The Testament of Cresseid, a narrative and “complaint” in 86 stanzas, Henryson completes the story of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, giving a grim and tragic account of the faithless heroine's rejection by her lover Diomede and her decline into prostitution. The Testament is more than a splendid piece of rhetorical craftsmanship; blended with Henryson's unwavering concern for justice are an aesthetic attraction to the repulsive and grotesque and a refined sense of the variance of human love.

      Among the shorter poems ascribed to Henryson are the lovely Orpheus and Eurydice, based on Boethius and akin to the Testament in mood and style; a pastourelle, Robene and Makyne, in which a traditional French genre assimilates the speech and humour of the Scottish peasantry; and a number of fine moral narratives and meditations.

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