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BCLA_Official: Our last speaker in this panel is Ruggero Bianchin, who is looking at “The Italian voice of Robert Henryson”
iainnicol: > The paddok for to droun set hir intent.
> Quhen thay in midwart off the streme wer went,
— The Taill of the Paddok & the Mous, by Robert Henryson
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scot_lit: “Blessed be the simple life without dread / Blessed be the sober feast in peace / He who has enough, of no more has he need / Though it be little in quantity”
—Robert Henryson, The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous
(translated from Scots)
scot_lit: “Blissit be sempill lyfe withoutin dreid / Blissit be sober feist in quietie / Quha hes aneuch, of na mair hes he need / Thocht it be littill into quantatie”
—Robert Henryson, The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous
(translation in thread)
scot_lit: “Fredome is tynt, and flemyt the lordis fro / And covatise is all the cause of this / I am content that youthede is ago / The more of age the nerar hevynnis blisse”
—Robert Henryson, The Praise of Age
(translation in thread)
scot_lit: “Freedom is lost and driven the lords away / And covetousness is the cause of this / I am content my youth is gone / The more of age the nearer heaven’s bliss”
—Robert Henryson, The Praise of Age
(translated from Scots)
birdymcnuggets: pov: you hear me reading the paddock and the mouse by robert henryson (a 15th century scotish poem)
adair_mark: ‘Summer comes in his garment green and cheerful,
Every hem and pleating flounced with flowers,
Which Flora, queen and goddess bountiful,
Has lent that lord for his due season’s hours…’
Robert Henryson - The Preaching of the Swallow (translated by Seamus Heaney)
meganlcook: A cancel! The Testament of Criseyde (actually by Robert Henryson) was a late-breaking addition to the 1532 Works (same HRC copy)
DrDavidCooper: This evening’s instalment in books-that-I-appear-to-own-but-have-absolutely-no-recollection-of-buying: Poems & Fables of Robert Henryson; Wharton’s The House of Mirth; Gower’s Confessio Amantis; & two copies of Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes. Still no First Folio, though…
adair_mark: ‘Then Phoebus fair, lantern and lamp of light,
Tender nurse of flourishing and fruiting,
… the banisher of night’.
Robert Henryson - from The Testament of Cresseid (translated by Seamus Heaney)
ClatchardCraig: "Quhen Aries, in middis of the Lent,
Schouris of haill gart fra the north discend,
That scantlie fra the cauld I micht defend."
Robert Henryson didnae pester his fellow monks with tedious observations about normal Spring weather. HE WROTE A PROPER POEM. Please emulate.
hyper_kewb: Robert Henryson really predicted the extent of my twitter popularity
kermit_marlowe: Robert Henryson in The Wolf and the Lamb:
sheenaghpugh: "The northin wind had purifyit the air
And sched the mistie cloudis fra the sky"
- Robert Henryson, "The Testament of Cresseid".
Happy St Andrew's Day.
LousVe2: [Download PDF] The Moral Fables of Robert Henryson by Robert Henryson Popular ☛
DrKateAsh: My new Death & Dying course is rapidly becoming an homage to Robert Henryson it would seem.
scotslanguage: Read aboot makar Robert Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid', a wark in Middle Scots which taks efter Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English classic ‘Troilus and Criseyde’
EdinburghUP: Out now - the latest issue of The Innes Review, featuring Adomnán's theological map of Iona, Robert Henryson's defence of poetry in the prologue to The Morall Fabillis, a projected pilgrimage from Suffolk to St Ninian, c. 1500, & all the latest reviews:
ClatchardCraig: Quhen Aries in middis of the Lent,
Schouris of haill gart fra the north discend,
That scantlie fra the cauld I micht defend.
Robert Henryson.
Weather forecast valid for Fife in both 1481 and 2021.
RichJStanton: Chaucer's Troilus is a superb work. It also inspires a wonderful Scottish poet called Robert Henryson to write The Testament of Cresseid, because he felt Chaucer and Troilus gave the poor woman short shrift (he's right!).
jembloomfield: Robert Henryson reads twitter today and thinks he can work with this material...
HI_Voices: Let's see what Robert Henryson had to say about the weather in his poem "The Testament of Creisseid" in the late 15th century:
ScotiaIndyref2: Ed. Henryson. Edinburgh : Robert Lekpreuik, 1566.
3. Pilgrimage of Perfection. London: Richard
Poynson, 1526.
4. Description of the Sphere (Proclus Platonicus). London: Robert Wyper, 1573.
5. Book of Psalms. London: Robert Wyper,1542.
John_Howieson: And Robert Henryson's great 15th-century poem 'The Testament of Cresseid' begins, "Ane doolie season to ane careful dyte / Suld correspond and be equivalent ..."
OnlineCrsLady: for people who are curious about Robert Henryson's Aesop:
molach95: I realised the other day if Henryson had lived centuries later we'd ken him bi the name "Robert Henderson" or Rabbie Henderson
somequotesbot: "In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte." - Robert Henryson
phung99735053: Kevin had been doing a PhD placing the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson in his European context when an arts centre where he worked part-time asked him to put on an exhibition about Scottish football.
ScotTextSoc: Today a bit of gloom for Monday morning, from Robert Henryson's 'The Praise of Age', 9-24.
False is this warld and full of variance,
Besoucht with syn and other sytis mo;
Treuth is all tynt, gyle has the gouuernance,
Wrechtines has wroht all welthis wele to wo,
nemoloris: ‘Kevin had been doing a PhD placing the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson ... when an arts centre where he worked part-time asked him to put on an exhibition about Scottish football.’ Felt quite teary reading this. Ave atque vale Kevin McCarra.
DaisyEBlack: ‘ane bow that is ay bent /Worthis unsmart and dullis on the string /Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent /In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.’
After a particularly tiring and mind-warping week, now Robert Henryson is trolling me as I prepare next week’s class on his Fables.
BryonySeries: "Once on a time, as Aesop did report,
"A little Mouse came to a riverside.
"She could not wade, her legs they were so short;."
The Puddock and the Mouse by Robert Henryson
scotslanguage: Read aboot makkar Robert Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid', a wark in Middle Scots which taks efter Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English classic ‘Troilus and Criseyde’
BryonySeries: " It has me beat," returned the little Mouse,
"How ye can float without a boat or raft?"
The Puddock and the Mouse by Robert Henryson
Jo_History: Happy new week !
'The man that will nocht quhen he may
Sall haif nocht when he wald.’
Robert Henryson.
MrTravisano: My mother, worried for my job prospects, didn’t want to pay for a theatre degree. So I showed her. I got a degree in English and did my senior thesis on the appropriation of Aesop by Chaucer and Robert Henryson. Take that mom!
somequotesbot: "Henryson's greatness is most plainly to be seen in the range of general principles and ideas which informs his poetry and which allows it to encompass tragedy and comedy alike. He is the most Shakespearian of the early Scottish poets." - Robert Henryson
adair_mark: ‘... a bow that’s always bent
Goes weak and gives and loses all its spring.
The same is true of minds always intent
On earnest thought and constant studying.
To alleviate what’s sad by adding something
Cheerful is good...’
Robert Henryson/Seamus Heaney
(pic by Claire Keane)
GoDunfermline: On our Fantasy Safari Tour we challenge the family to count how many golden animals they see.
These animals come from fables written by Robert Henryson (c1460-1500) who lived in Dunfermline. It's thought he came from Fife and 5000 lines of his writing survives.
Mat_at_Brookes: Today I learned that Margaret Meek:
1. Is an ancestor of the MacDuff clan
2. Had a grandfather who knew Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Grew up in a house opposite where the poet Robert Henryson had lived.
4. Considered herself an apprentice of Harold Rosen
adair_mark: ‘Then when winter’s gone there comes the spring -
Summer’s secretary, bearing his seal...
The thrushes and the blackbirds sing their fill.
The lark on high, soaring far up yonder,
Is seen again, and other little songsters.’
Robert Henryson - from a translation by Seamus Heaney
adair_mark: ‘For scholars say it is not sufficient
To consider only things that you can see...
Only a fool fails to take cognisance
Of what the future holds and thinks the present
Forever stable, safe and permanent.’
Robert Henryson - The Preaching of the Swallow (trans. Seamus Heaney)
emilyobtrick: if Robert Henryson was in Panic! at the Disco: i am a mere translator, and this is just the prologue
GanongWilliam: More books just because.
Tennyson, Tolkien, Poul Anderson & Robert Henryson.
A power quad.
ScotTextSoc: Thow dois no wrong to pvnis our offens:
O lord, that is to mankynd haill succure,
Perserue ws fra this perrelus pestilens!
For the rest, see The Poems of Robert Henryson ed. D Parkinson, on TEAMS.
ClatchardCraig: Robert Henryson. One of the greatest makars. His Scots version of Aesop's fables is glorious.
molach95: Example, from Robert Henryson (Dunfermline) -
"Off his awin deid ilk man salbeir the pais"
"Of his own dead every man shall bear the *transport?" Couldn't really get a good translation of pais
JamesDelingpole: I don't mean to be rude about the Scots who did after all give us James Boswell, Adam Smith, Robert Henryson, etc plus lots of victories. But why are so many of the really thick tweets I get from North of the Wall?
unfutesair: Here is the earliest known witness to Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid: a single stanza, misattributed to ‘bocas þat wes full gwd’, and gathered into a collection of Gaelic verse (NLS, Adv MS 72.1.37;
billykayscot: The JOOT Theatre Company presents Robert Henryson's 'The Testiment of Cresseid'
HumanitiesUoD: The JOOT Theatre Company presents Robert Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid'. Saturday, 9th November, 7.30pm at the Barron Theatre, 95 North Street St Andrews
staenglish: Join Professor Rhiannon Purdie and students of 'Older Scots Literature' for a pre-performance workshop of Robert Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid' on Saturday 9th November 12-2pm in the Barron Theatre
Peli_Fox: Taken from The Morall Fabillis by Scottish poet Robert Henryson where Lawrence the fox, in poverty and starving, fasts and fails.
Sons of our fathers
Sins of our fathers
Brill_Lit_Cult: We are saddened by the news of the death of Professor John MacQueen, Emeritus Professor of Scottish Literature and Oral Tradition, University of Edinburgh, and author of 'Complete and Full with Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson'
Stylisticienne: New translations of two medieval versions of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: SIR ORFEO and Henryson's ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
LisaSpangenberg: So John Lydgate wrote Chaucer fan fic. So did Robert Henryson. Just sayin'
Stylisticienne: A pair of new translations (self-)published today - SIR ORFEO and Robert Henryson's ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE:
dlivingstone: Another 3D model - this time the small monument to 15th C. Scots poet Robert Henryson in Glasgow's Queen's Park -
unfutesair: These are so good – Hughie O'Donoghue's illustrations for Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid (2004).
bevanne_lake: Some works by Robert Henryson
Robene and Makyne
Sum Practysis of Medecyne
The Annuciation
Ane Prayer for the Pest
T...
bevanne_lake: Robert Henryson: a poet who flourished in Scotland c. 1460-1500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the ro...
sheenaghpugh: The northin wind had purifyit the air,
And sched the mistie cloudis fra the sky;
The froist freisit, the blastis...
queerdievalist: Robert Henryson: Thocht feinyeit fabils of ald poetre / Be not al grunded upon truth...
Me, a medievalist: Hold on...
Nerd_Wallflower: (the dying man was Robert Henryson, a XVIth century Scottish poet)
InterestingLit: 'Baudrons' is a Scottish name for the cat, like Reynard for the fox - it is found in medieval poet Robert Henryson's translation of Aesop.
drkmurch: Looking forward to tomorrow, when I'll start teaching my new course, 'Medieval Disability and Robert Henryson's The...
bottomofstairs: Not it wasn't read some Robert Henryson poor soul was freezing
theprolific: Ÿ“· humanoidhistory: Robert Henryson, dressed for space, operates the planetarium machine at Griffith...
sheenaghpugh: "Think that na thing cruell nor violent
May in this warld perpetuallie indure." - Robert Henryson, Fable of the Wolf and the Lamb
