Robert Henryson

On ne sait à peu près rien de la vie de cet écrivain écossais sinon qu'il était maître ès arts, avait étudié le droit et dirigeait probablement l'école de Dunfermline (Écosse).

Recueils

The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson, now first collected with notes, and a memoir of his life. By David Laing, Edinburgh, Paterson, 1865, lx + 331 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
The Poems of Robert Henryson, edited by G. Gregory Smith, Edinburgh et London, Blackwood (Scottish Text Society, 64, 55, 58), 1906-1914, 3 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
The Poems of Robert Henryson, a revised text with various readings, notes, introduction and glossary edited by W. M. Metcalfe, Paisley, Gardner, 1917, xxxi + 374 p. [HT: ex. 1, ex. 2] [IA]
The Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson, Edited from the Earliest Manuscripts and Printed Texts by H. Harvey Wood, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1933, xlix + 304 p.
Compte rendu: Douglas Hamer, dans The Modern Language Review, 29:3, 1934, p. 342-344. [Jstor]
Robert Henryson, Poems, edited by Charles Elliott, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963, xxvi + 184 p.
Compte rendu: John MacQueen, dans The Review of English Studies, 62, 1965, p. 224-225. [Jstor]
The Poems of Robert Henryson, éd. Denton Fox, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, cxxiii + 596 p.
Compte rendu: Florence H. Ridley, dans Speculum, 57:3, 1982, p. 626-631. [Jstor]
Robert Henryson, The Poems, éd. Denton Fox, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, xvi + 296 p.
Compte rendu: Anne Samson, dans Literature in the Modern Media: Radio, Film, and Television, The Yearbook of English Studies, 20, 1990, p. 328. [Jstor]
The Poems of Robert Henryson, ed. Robert L. Kindrick with Kristie A. Bixby, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 1997, ix + 313 p.
Compte rendu: Daniel Donoghue, dans Speculum, 74:2, 1999, p. 431-432. [Jstor]
The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas, edited, introduced, and annotated by J. A. Tasioulas, Edinburgh, Canongate Books, 1999.
Selected Poems of William Dunbar and Robert Henryson, edited by Douglas Gray, Penguin, 1999.
Compte rendu: James Campbell, « Scotland's first confessional poet », The Threepenny Review, 80, 2000, p. 12-13. [Jstor]
Klinck, Anne L., The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems ca 1150-1530, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019, xx + 419 p. ISBN: 9780773558823
Compte rendu:
Simone Celine Marshall, dans The Medieval Review, 22.04.05, 2022. [www]

Généralités

Benson, C. David, « Critic and poet: what Lydgate and Henryson did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde », Modern Language Quarterly, 53:1, 1992, p. 23-40.
Boffey, Julia, « Lydgate, Henryson, and the literary testament », Modern Language Quarterly, 53, 1992, p. 41-56.
Gray, Douglas, Robert Henryson, Brookfield, Variorum (English Writers of the Late Middle Ages, 9), 1996.
Kindrick, Robert L., « Monarchs and monarchy in the poetry of Henryson and Dunbar », Actes du 2^e Colloque de langue et de littérature écossaisses, éd. Jean-Jacques Blanchot et Claude Graf, Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, 1979, p. 307-325.
Kindrick, Robert L., Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric, New York, Garland, 1993.
Lyall, R. J., « Henryson and Boccaccio: a problem in the study of sources », Anglia, 99, 1981, p. 38-59.
Machan, Tim W., « Textual authority and the works of Hoccleve, Lydgate and Henryson », Viator, 23, 1992, p. 281-299.
MacQueen, John, Robert Henryson: A Study of the Major Narrative Poems, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1967.
McDiarmid, Matthew P., « Robert Henryson in his poems », Bards and Makars, éd. Adam J. Aitken, Matthew P. McDiarmid et Derick S. Thompson, Glasgow, University of Glasgow, 1977, p. 27-40.
McKenna, Steven R., Robert Henryson's Tragic Vision, New York, Peter Lang, 1994.
Orlemanski, Julie, Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (Alembics), 2019, ix + 333 p. DOI: 10.9783/9780812296082 ISBN: 9780812296082
Seymour, Michael C., éd., English Writers of the Late Middle Ages. Nos 7-11, Aldershot et Brookfield, Variorum (Authors of the Middle Ages, 3), 1996, vi + 256 p.

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