BIBLIOGRAPHY

Scheps, Walter and J. Anna Looney. Middle Scots Poets: A Reference Guide to James I of Scotland, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. Boston: Hall, 1986, 292 p.

Extensive annotated bibliography, indexed, on each author, plus a section covering other works of interest.

CRITICISM

Benson, C. David. “Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 53, no. 1 (March 1992): 23-40.

Comments on Lydgate's and Henryson's adaptations of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.

Clark, George. “Henryson and Aesop: the Fable Transformed.” ELH 43, no. 1 (spring 1976): 1-18

Contrasts the fables of Henryson and Aesop.

Craun, Edwin D. “Blaspheming Her ‘Awin God’: Cresseid's ‘Lamentatioun’ in Henryson's Testament.” Studies in Philology LXXXII, no. 1 (winter 1985): 25-41.

Examines Cresseid's blasphemy and her lamentation.

Fox, Denton. Robert Henryson: Testament of Cresseid. London: Nelson, 1968, 165 p.

Extensive critical review of Testament of Cresseid.

Kindrick, Robert L. Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric. New York: Garland, 1993, 333 p.

Contextualizes and extensively illuminates Henryson's rhetoric.

———. “Henryson's ‘Uther Quair’ Again: A Possible Candidate and the Nature of the Tradition.” Chaucer Review 33, no. 2 (1998): 190-220.

Suggests Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini's text Historia de duobus amantibus may assist in the interpretation of The Testament of Cresseid.

Kratzmann, Gregory. “Henryson's Fables: ‘the subtell dyte of poetry.’” Studies in Scottish Literature XX (1985): 49-70.

Likens Henryson's poetry to that of Chaucer with its mix of pleasure and morality.

Machan, Tim William. “Textual Authority and the Works of Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Henryson.” Viator 23 (1992): 281-99.

Studies the similarities between Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and Henryson.

MacQueen, John. Robert Henryson: A Study of the Major Narrative Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967, 229 p.

Comprehensive overview of Henryson's poems and fables.

McDiarmid, Matthew P. “Robert Henryson in his Poems.” In Bards and Makars, edited by Adam J. Aitken, Matthew P. McDiarmid, and Derick S. Thomson, pp. 27-40. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1977.

Identifies the personal responses and opinions of Henryson in his poetry.

———. Robert Henryson. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1981, 125 p.

Thorough study of Henryson's works, including one chapter on what is known of his life.

McKenna, Steven R. “Henryson's ‘Tragedie’ of Cresseid.” Scottish Literary Journal 18, no. 1 (May 1991): 26-36.

Examines the structural pattern of tragedy in The Testament of Cresseid and the tragic characterization of Cresseid.

Mills, Carol. “Romance Convention of Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice.” In Bards and Makars, edited by Adam J. Aitken, Matthew P. McDiarmid, and Derick S. Thomson, pp. 52-60. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1977.

Comments on the assimilation of multiple, previously-published stories in Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice, specifically noting his integration of romantic features.

Murtaugh, Daniel M. “Henryson's Animals.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language XIV, no. 3 (fall 1972): 405-21.

Discusses Henryson's use of animals and their significance in his fables.

Patterson, Lee W. “Christian and Pagan in The Testament of Cresseid.” Philological Quarterly 52, no. 4 (October 1973): 696-714.

Notes Henryson's emulation of Chaucer in his exploration of the dilemma of a Christian character in a pagan world.

Rutledge, Thomas. “Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice: A Northern Humanism?” Forum for Modern Language Studies XXXVIII, no. 4 (October 2002): 396-411.

Suggests Angelo Poliziano's Favola di Orfeo may have influenced Orepheus and Eurydice.

Scheps, Walter. “A Climatological Reading of Henryson's Testament of Cresseid.” Studies in Scottish Literature XV (1980): 80-87.

Contends that Henryson consciously establishes his autonomy from Chaucer by repositioning the setting further north.

Schrader, Richard J. “Some Backgrounds of Henryson.” Studies in Scottish Literature XV (1980): 124-38.

Provides and evaluates various critical interpretations of Henryson's work.

Stearns, Marshall W. Robert Henryson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949, 155 p.

Collection of seven essays offering appreciation of and insight into Henryson's work.

Stiller, Nikki. “Robert Henryson's Cresseid and Sexual Backlash.” Literature and Psychology XXXI, no. 2 (1981): 88-95.

Considers Henryson's portrayal of Cressida as an indication of European sentiment regarding women, love, and sex.

Storm, Melvin. “The Intertextual Cresseida: Chaucer's Henryson or Henryson's Chaucer?” Studies in Scottish Literature 28 (1993): 105-22.

States that in The Testament of Cresseid Henryson resolves some of the ambiguities contained in Chaucer's poem and, in homage to Chaucer initiates some irresolutions of his own.

Strauss, Dietrich. “Some Comments on the Moralitas of Robert Henryson's ‘Orpheus and Eurydice.’” Studies in Scottish Literature 32 (2001): 1-12.

Remarks on the didactic component of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Additional coverage of Henryson's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: British Writers Supplement, Vol. 7; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 146; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 20; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2.