Robert Henryson

At our April 2017 meeting, Dr. Morna Fleming presented a fascinating talk on “Robert Henryson’s Morall Fabillis”. She gave us an excellent introduction to this major work by the 15th Century Dunfermline poet, which stimulated many questions from the audience. She finished by giving us a couple of book recommendations and some website links “for further exploration”, which I’ve listed here.

• The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables, translated by Seamus Heaney (Faber, 2008)
• Among His Personal Effects, by Craig McDonald

• The Robert Henryson Society website at
  • http://www.henryson.org.uk
• The original Glasgow University Robert Henryson site at
  • http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/STARN/poetry/HENRYSON/homepage.htm
  • this site includes a modernised edition of the Thirteen Moral Fables by R.W. Smith.
• A dramatised reading of the Testament of Cresseid by Colin Donalti and Morna Fleming at
  • http://www.britaininprint.net/learning/index.php