henryson robert seamus heaney translator (8 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 183 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The greatest of the late medieval Scots makers, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited poetic example of Geoffrey Chaucer. Henrysonâs 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 Chaucerâs Troilus and Criseyde, offering a tragic account of its faithless heroineâs rejection by her lover, Diomede, and of her subsequent decline into prostitution and leprosy. Written in Middle Scots, a distinctive northern version of English, the Testament has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident but faithful idiom that matches the original verse form and honors the poetâs unique blend of detachment and compassion. Also a comic master of the verse fable, Henrysonâs burlesques of human weakness in the guise of animal wisdom are delicately pointed with irony. Heaney here sparklingly translates seven of the Fables; their freshness rendered to the last claw and feather. 183p.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Jacket bumped at one coner and extremities of spine, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st. !st American edition stated on copyright page and first printig with number 1 in printline. Near fine book and jacket showing light wear - looks close to new.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 183pp. Very good hardback in a lightly foxed jacket.

paperback. Etat : Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first American edition, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($25.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very fine (as-new), but for a spot of wear on top edge of front board. Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First American Edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. The Irish poet was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1995; here he offers his version of the medieval Scottish epic. This is a Fine copy of the First American Edition. Purple paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; xix, 183 pages. The dustjacket is unclipped and Near Fine (three small scuffs on the rear panel). In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.