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Robert Henryson
Bibliography and Teaching Resources
Primary Texts
The Poems of Robert Henryson ed Denton Fox, Oxford University Press, 1981
Selected Poems of Henryson and Dunbar ed Priscilla Bawcutt and Felicity Riddy, Scottish Academic Press, 1992
Secondary Reading
Adamson, J (1976) "Henryson's Testament of Cresseid: 'Fyre and Cauld' The Critical Review 18, pp 39-60
Aitken, AJ et al, eds (1977) Bards and Makars Glasgow University Press
Aitken, AJ (1983) "The Language of Older Scots Poetry" in JD McClure, ed.
Baird, G (1996) The Poems of Robert Henryson ASLS Scotnotes
Bauman, R (1964) "The Folktale and Oral Tradition in the Fables of Robert Henryson" Fabula 6, pp108-124
Burrow, JA (1975) "Henryson: The Preaching of the Swallow" Essays in Criticism 25, pp 25-37
Clark, G (1976) "Henryson and Aesop: the Fable Transformed" English Literary History 43, pp 1-18
Duncan, D (1961) "Henryson's Testament of Cresseid " Essays in Criticism 11, pp 128-135
Fox, D (1962) "Henryson's Fables" English Literary History 29, pp337-356
Fox, D (1966) "The Scottish Chaucerians" in DS Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians pp 164-200
Fox, D (1968) "Henryson and Caxton" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 pp 586-593
Fox, D (1984) "The Coherence of Henryson's Work" in RF Yeager, ed. pp 275-281
Fradenburg, LO (1984) "Henryson Scholarship: the Recent Decades" in Yeager, ed. pp 65-92
Gray, D (1979) Robert Henryson Leiden: Brill
Gray, D (1995) Robert Henryson and William Dunbar Variorum
Gros Louis, KRR (1966) "Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the Orpheus Tradition of the Middle Ages" Speculum 41, pp 643-655
Jack, RDS, ed (1988) The History of Scottish Literature, Volume I Aberdeen University Press
Jamieson, IWA (1971-2) "The Minor Poems of Robert Henryson" Studies in Scottish Literature 9, pp 125-147
Jenkins, AW "Henryson's The Fox, The Wolf, and the Cadger, again" Studies in Scottish Literature 4, pp 107-112
Kratzmann, G (1980) Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430-1550 Cambridge University Press
Lyall, RJ and F Riddy, eds (1981) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance Universities of Stirling and Glasgow
MacQueen, J (1976) "Neoplatonism and Orphism in Fifteenth Century Scotland" Scottish Studies 20 pp 69-89
MacQueen, J (1967) Robert Henryson: A Study of the Major Narrative Poems Oxford University Press
McClure, JD ed (1983) Scotland and the Lowland Tongue Aberdeen University Press
McClure, JD and Spiller, MRG eds (1989) Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland Aberdeen University Press
McDiarmid, MP (1981) Robert Henryson Edinburgh
McDonald, D (1966-7) "Henryson and Chaucer: Cock and Fox" Texas Studies in Literature and Language 8, pp 451-461
Powell, M (1983) Fabula Docet: Studies in the Background and Interpretation of Henryson's Moral Fables Odense: Denmark
Scheps, W and JA Looney (1986) Middle Scots Poets, A Reference Guide Boston, Mass. 1986
Spearing, AC (1962) "The Testament of Cresseid" and the 'High Concise Style'" Speculum 37, pp 208-225
Strauss, D and HW Drescher , eds (1986) Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance: Fourth International (1984) Conference Proceedings Frankfurt am Main
Strauss, J (1977) "To Speak Once More of Cresseid: Henryson's Testament Reconsidered" Scottish Literary Journal 4, pp 5-13
Toliver, HE (1965) "Robert Henryson: From Moralitas to Irony" English Studies 46 pp 300-309
Von Kreisler, N (1973-4) "Henryson's Visionary Fable: Tradition and Craftsmanship in The Lyoun and the Mous" Texas Studies in Language and Literature 15 pp 391-403
Wright, DA (1971) "Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the Tradition of the Muses" Medium Aevum 40, pp 841-847
Yeager, RF, ed (1984) Fifteenth Century Studies Hamden, Conn.