...C. David Benson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 CRITIC AND POET: WHAT LYDGATE AND HENRYSON DID TO CHAUCER’S TROILUS RND CRISEYDE By C. DAVID BENSON Although Chaucer’s Troilus and Cristyde is cited...

...Julia Boffey Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 LYDGATE, HENRYSON, AND THE LITERARY TESTAMENT By JULIA BOFFEY Literary experiment with the matter and form of the legal testament held a particular...

...Marshall W. Stearns HENRYSON AND CHAUCER By MARSHALLW. STEARNS Some time ago Professors Neilson and Webster wrote,: “It is doubtful whether there is in the whole of English literature a case of neglected genius so remarkable...

...Francis Lee Utley Marshall W. Stearns. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. Pp. x + 155. $2.50. Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 REVIEWS Robert Henryson. By MARSHALLW. STEARNS.New York: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 1949. Pp. x...

... to support my conclusion that the Kinaston anecdote is open to doubt, and asserts that I am “somewhat uncritical” about two documents that I simply present in my ex- position of the “recorded facts and conjectures concerning Henryson’s life.” That is all. As for the “errors” in history...

... fixed firmly on the horizon for the glimpse of an occasional Caledon- ian hillock to offset the dreariness of the surrounding view. Such a landscape, in which the prospect of Henryson and Dunbar provided the only relief from the tedium of Lydgate and his followers, enabled a neat critical...

... uses the representation of shifting, sensory experience as an excuse for unambiguous moral utterance. This is a poetry in which “ethical abstractions . . . are used to interpret the world” (p. 116). The argument of chapter 5, “The Limits of Vision in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid...

... Donaldson’s own brilliance as a writer. Chapter 5 traces the way Shakespeare’s transformation of the story was governed by Henryson’s refrain, “0false Creseide, and true Troilus.” In Chaucer’s poem, Criseyde’s falseness is known only to Troylus and Pan- darus. Only at the end does she acknowledge...

..., the fact that this echo of current hysteria finds its way into a scholarly review is unfortunate. (Parenthetically, it is Mr. Utley who speaks of the “proletariat” when, I presume, he means the peasantry; there was no proletariat in the poet’s day.) I refer to Henryson as a humanitarian...

.... The second, a sort of brief appendage to the first, deals with the Scottish Chaucerians. Since these writers, by Sells’s own account-and he treats only two: James I (of Scotland) and Robert Henryson-were more intimately influenced by Chaucer and by French poets than by Italian...

..., Kennedy, Loomis and Wells, Loomis and Willard, Arnold’s Wace, Parry’s Andreas Capellanus, Loomis’ Arthurion Tradition und Chrbtien de Troyes, Knowles, Reese, French on King Horn, Denholm-Young, Steams on Henryson, Meech and Allen’s Margery Kempe, Vinaver’s Malory, Brown and Robbins, Bowden...

... Publications in English, Vol. 7, NO.3, 1948. Pp. 139-56. $0.35. Steams, Marshall W. Robert Henryson. New York : Columbia University Press, 1949. Pp. viii + 155. $2.50. FRENCH Bertocci, Angelo Philip. Charles Du Bos and English Literature: A Critic...

... and the Arcadia, but he would have a good chance of getting by without knowing Gavin Douglas, Robert Henryson, or even Burns. Among any average group of American Doctors, probably half would glibly label Burns a pre-Romantic, and at least as many would mispronounce such names as Moray, Dunbar...

... of matters long familiar to students of that poet. The second, a sort of brief appendage to the first, deals with the Scottish Chaucerians. Since these writers, by Sells’s own account-and he treats only two: James I (of Scotland) and Robert Henryson-were more intimately influenced by Chaucer...

... to seriously. No candidate would dare face his orals without having scaled those Everests of dullness, Euphucs and the Arcadia, but he would have a good chance of getting by without knowing Gavin Douglas, Robert Henryson, or even Burns. Among any average group of American Doctors, probably half...

... and Anarchy in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. xiii + 267 pp. $7.50; 60s. Forrest, James F. (editor). “The Holy War” by John Bunyan. New York: New York University Press, 1967. xx + 286 pp. $7.50. Fox, Denton (editor). Robert Henryson: “Testament...

.... Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Pp. xvii + 263-652. $8.80. Elliott, Charles (editor). Robert Henryson: Poems. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. Pp. xxvi + 184. $2.90. Engelberg, Edward. The Vast Design: Patterns in W. B. Yeats’s Aesthetic. Toronto: University of Toronto...

... reading Criseyde stirs the mind to fresh speculation. Henryson thought, with his Testament of Cresseid, to put a period to the story. The fate he chose for her may be morally suitable, but it is false to Chaucer’s poem: a piteous and repugnant Criseyde is not the one who remains in one’s mind...

..., at least tem- porarily. The water restores the knight to moral and physical whole- ness. Chaucer’s use of the Midas story criticizes the male’s inability to govern himself or even to know what he desires most.29 28 In his edition of Henryson, Denton Fox carefully describes the prevalence...

... an object than a subject, even an allegori­ cal one, and the plowman’s distantiated appraisal of nature evokes the ethos of the picturesque (in which peasants serve as window dressing) more than it does the polyvocal inclusivity of a Scottish precursor like Robert Henryson.14 Looking forward, we may...