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Robert Henryson, Complete Works: Bibliography
ABBREVIATIONS: EETS: Early English Text Society; STS: Scottish Text Society
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Allen, Elizabeth. False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Archibald, Elizabeth. “The Incestuous Kings in Henryson’s Hades.” Scottish Studies 4 (1984): 281–89.
Aronstein, Susan. “Cresseid Reading Cresseid: Redemption and Translation in Henryson’s Testament.” Scottish Literary Journal 21.2 (1994): 5–22.
The Assembly of Gods: Le Assemble de Dyeus, or Banquet of Gods and Goddesses, with the Discourse of Reason and Sensuality. Ed. Jane Chance. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999.
Barron, W. J. R., ed. Robert Henryson: Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1981.
Bawcutt, Priscilla, ed. The Poems of William Dunbar. 2 vols. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1998.
———. The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas. Second ed. STS fifth series 2. Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 2003.
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———. Poems of Henryson and Dunbar. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1992.
Bellamy, J. G. The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Bennett, J. A. W. “Henryson’s Testament: A Flawed Masterpiece.” Scottish Literary Journal 1.1 (1974): 5–16.
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Bishop, Ian. “Lapidary Formulas as Topics of Invention — From Thomas of Hales to Henryson.” Review of English Studies, n.s. 37 (1986): 469–77.
Bitterling, Klaus. “Robert Henryson, The Fables, Line 428.” Notes and Queries n.s. 40 (1993): 25–26.
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Boffey, Julia. “Lydgate, Henryson, and the Literary Testament.” Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992): 41–56.
———. “The Maitland Folio Manuscript as a Verse Anthology.” In William Dunbar, “The Nobill Poyet”: Essays in Honour of Priscilla Bawcutt. Ed. Sally Mapstone. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001. Pp. 40–50.
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———. “Henryson: The Preaching of the Swallow.” In Essays on Medieval Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. 148–60. [Reprint from Essays in Criticism 25 (1975): 25-37.
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Caldwell, John. “Robert Henryson’s Harp of Eloquence.” In The Well Enchanting Skill: Music, Poetry, and Drama in the Culture of the Renaissance. Ed. John Caldwell, Edward Olleson, and Susan Wollenberg. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. 145–52.
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Corbett, John. “Aureation Revisited: The Latinate Vocabulary of Dunbar’s High and Plain Styles.” In William Dunbar, “The Nobill Poyet”: Essays in Honour of Priscilla Bawcutt. Ed. Sally Mapstone. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001. Pp. 183–97.
Cornelius, Michael G. “Robert Henryson’s Pastoral Burlesque ‘Robene and Makyne’ (c. 1470).” Fifteenth-Century Studies 28 (2003): 80–96.
Craigie, W. A., ed. The Maitland Folio Manuscript. 2 vols. STS second series 7, 20. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1919–27.
———. The Asloan Manuscript. 2 vols. STS second series 14, 16. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1923–25.
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———. The Palis of Honoure. Ed. David J. Parkinson. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Drexler, Robert Daniel. “Henryson’s ‘Ane Prayer for the Pest.’” Forum for Modern Language Studies 16 (1980): 368–70.
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Ellenberger, Bengt. The Latin Element in the Vocabulary of the Earlier Makars: Henryson and Dunbar. Lund Studies in English 51. Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1977.
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Fein, Susanna Greer. “Twelve-Line Stanza Forms in Middle English and the Date of Pearl.” Speculum 72 (1997): 367–98.
———, ed. Moral Love Songs and Laments. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998.
Findlay, L. M. “Reading and Teaching Troilus Otherwise: St Maure, Chaucer, Henryson.” Florilegium 16 (1999): 61–75.
Forni, Kathleen. The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Counterfeit Canon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Fox, Denton. “Henryson’s Fables.” ELH 29 (1962): 337–56.
———, ed. The Poems of Robert Henryson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981.
Fox, Denton, and William A. Ringler, eds. The Bannatyne Manuscript: National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ MS. 1.1.6. London: Scolar and the National Library of Scotland, 1980.
Fradenburg, Louise O. “Henryson Scholarship: The Recent Decades.” In Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays. Ed. R. F. Yeager. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1984. Pp. 65-92.
Friedman, John Block. Orpheus in the Middle Ages. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Furnivall, Frederick J., ed. Supplementary Parallel-Texts of Chaucer’s Minor Poems. Part One. Chaucer Society, first series 22. London: Trübner, 1871.
Geddie, William. A Bibliography of Middle Scots Poets. STS first series 61. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. [Henryson is cataloged on pp. 166–86.]
Giaccherini, Enrico. “From Sir Orfeo to ‘Schir Orpheus’: Exile, and the Waning of the Middle Ages.” In Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture. Ed. Sharon Ouditt. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. 1–10.
Godman, Peter. “Henryson’s Masterpiece.” Review of English Studies 35 (1984): 291–300.
Gopen, George D., ed. and trans. The Moral Fables of Aesop. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987.
Gower, John. Confessio Amantis. Ed. Russell A. Peck. 3 vols. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003–06.
Gray, Douglas. Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric. London: Routledge, 1972.
———. Robert Henryson. Medieval and Renaissance Authors. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979.
———, ed. Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar. London: Penguin, 1998.
Green, Richard Firth. A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Greentree, Rosemary. Reader, Teller and Teacher: The Narrator of Robert Henryson’s Moral Fables. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1993.
———. “Literate in Love: Makyne’s Lesson for Robene.” In Older Scots Literature. Ed. Sally Mapstone. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2005. Pp. 61–69.
Grigsby, Bryon Lee. Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Gros Louis, Kenneth R. R. “Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice and the Orpheus Traditions of the Middle Ages.” Speculum 41 (1966): 643–55.
Haar, James. “Music of the Spheres.” Grove Music Online. 14 August 2007 <http://www.grovemusic.com>. 5 September 2008.
Hanham, Alison, and J. C. Eade. “Foxy Astrology in Henryson.” Parergon 24 (1979): 25–29.
Hay, Sir Gilbert. The Prose Works of Sir Gilbert Hay. Vol. 3: The Buke of the Ordre of Knychthede and The Buke of the Gouernaunce of Princis. Ed. Jonathan A. Glenn. STS fourth series 21. Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1993.
Heaney, Seamus, trans. The Testament of Cresseid: A Retelling of Robert Henryson’s Poem. London: Enitharmon, 2004.
———, trans. “The Toad and the Mouse by Seamus Heaney, Translated from the Scots of Robert Henryson (c. 1420–1490).” Guardian Unlimited Books. The Guardian. 27 May 2006 <http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/poetry/story/0,,1783972,00.html>. 5 September 2008.
Henryson, Robert. The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1970. [Facsimile of the 1570 Charteris print of The Morall Fabillis (C).]
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Hill, Thomas. “Stet Verbum Regis: Why Henryson’s Husbandman Is Not a King.” English Studies 86 (2005): 127–32.
Hill, Thomas D. “Hirundines Habent Quidem Prescium: Why Henryson’s ‘Preaching of a Swallow’ Is Preached by a Swallow.” Scottish Literary Journal Supplement 26 (Spring 1987): 30–31.
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Jacobs, John C., trans. The Fables of Odo of Cheriton. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1985.
Jamieson, Ian W. A. “The Poetry of Robert Henryson: A Study of the Use of Source Material.” Ph.D. dissertation, Edinburgh, 1964.
———. “The Minor Poems of Robert Henryson.” Studies in Scottish Literature 9 (1971–72): 125–47.
———. “‘To Preue Thare Prechyng be a Poesye’: Some Thoughts on Henryson’s Poetics.” Parergon 8 (1974): 24-36.
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———. Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric. New York: Garland, 1993.
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———. Troy Book: Selections. Ed. Robert R. Edwards. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998.
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———. “The Latin Original of Robert Henryson’s Annunciation Lyric.” In The Renaissance in Scotland: Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture Offered to John Durkan. Ed. A. A. MacDonald, Michael Lynch, and Ian B. Cowan. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994. Pp. 45–65.
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