The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables The Little Edges In a phalanx of notes

In a phalanx of notes and footnotes

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The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables The Little Edges In a phalanx of notesRobert Henryson (trans. Seamus Heaney) The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. Henryson's finest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of Scots literature, is the narrative 'Testament of Cresseid'. Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, the Testament completes the story of Chaucer's Troilus