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...
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Chaucer's influence on 15th-century Scottish literature (section Robert Henryson (c. 1425 – c. 1500))
"Chaucerianism" was followed by a second phase, comprising the works of Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. At this point, England has recognised...
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The Testament of Cresseid (category Works by Robert Henryson)
lines in Middle Scots, written by the 15th-century Scottish makar Robert Henryson. It is his best known poem. It imagines a tragic fate for Cressida...
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fourteenth century) The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene, a poem by Robert Henryson (c.1470) "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes", a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke...
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of poets of fifteenth and sixteenth century Scotland, in particular Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who wrote a diverse genre of works...
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Assembly of Gods (anonymous) The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian by Robert Henryson Tam Lin (anonymous) Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe The Rape...
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the manner of other Northern Renaissance figures, such as the poet Robert Henryson, and that the images rendered have precise and premeditated significance...
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The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian (category Works by Robert Henryson)
composed in Middle Scots by the fifteenth century Scottish makar, Robert Henryson. It is a cycle of thirteen connected narrative poems based on fables...
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first known Biblia pauperum (picture Bible). 1462: 10 September – Robert Henryson enrols as a teacher in the recently founded University of Glasgow in...
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(1945–1993), American serial killer Bert Henderson (disambiguation) Robert Henryson (fl. c. 1460–1500), Scottish poet Henderson (surname) This disambiguation...
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L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine Ivan Krylov Nicolas Trigault Robert Thom Zhou Zuoren...
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Death Is a Number is a 1951 British horror film directed by Robert Henryson and starring Terence Alexander, Lesley Osmond and Peter Gawthorne. A racing...
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to the words turnpike (toll road) and pikeman (toll collector). In Robert Henryson's Fable Collection (late 15th century), in the fable of the Two Mice...
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traditional Scots) was represented as Lowrence, as in the Morall Fabillis of Robert Henryson. In Finnish mythology, the fox is usually depicted as a cunning trickster...
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1989, p. 38 "Peterhead author Robert Stephen, About Aberdeen R.W. Smith. "The thirteen moral fables of Robert Henryson (a modernised edition)". Archived...
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to be associated with the abbey is the Northern Renaissance poet, Robert Henryson. The tomb of Saint Margaret and Malcolm Canmore, within the ruined...
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fabulists have included Aesop, Vishnu Sarma, Phaedrus, Marie de France, Robert Henryson, Biernat of Lublin, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, Félix María...
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The main poets of this Scottish group were Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. Henryson and Dunbar introduced a note of almost savage...
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13th century), author of Jewish fables adapted from Aesop's Fables Robert Henryson (Scottish, 15th century), author of The Morall Fabillis of Esope the...
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L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine Ivan Krylov Nicolas Trigault Robert Thom Zhou Zuoren...
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to 820 lines in heroic couplets. In the meantime the Scottish poet Robert Henryson had produced his freer version of Chaucer's tale, The Taill of Schir...
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Palace until the Union of the Crowns in 1603. The 15th-century poet Robert Henryson, one of Scotland's most important literary figures during the period...
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return the lion's favor, to its sceptical amusement. The Scottish poet Robert Henryson, in a version he included in his Morall Fabillis in the 1480s, expands...
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L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine Ivan Krylov Nicolas Trigault Robert Thom Zhou Zuoren...
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variant of Henryson. Although these Hendersons were not a significant power in the Borders they were still classed as a riding clan. Henryson was a common...
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Several other authors then took up the tale, including the Scottish poet Robert Henryson in his The Testament of Cresseid, which 'completes' Cressida's story...
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Robene and Makyne (category Works by Robert Henryson)
"Robene and Makyne" is a short poem by the 15th-century Scottish makar Robert Henryson. It is an early written example of Scottish pastourelle, derived from...
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Scottish followers of the century from 1420 to 1520—King James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas—seem to have understood his meter...
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translated from Van den vos Reynaerde. Also in the 1480s, the Scottish poet Robert Henryson devised a highly sophisticated development of Reynardian material as...
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audience to be careful of reckless decisions and of truste on flaterye. Robert Henryson used Chaucer's tale as a source for his Taill of Schir Chanticleir...
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