Robert Henryson

Robert Henryson was teaching at Dunfermline towards the end of the fifteenth century, after studying canon law. He was a schoolmaster, probably at the abbey, and a charter of 1478 shows him as a witness, as a notary public, of the same house. His dates are unknown: he is known to have died before 1505, because a poem composed then counts him among the dead poets. His longest work is a collection of thirteen fables of Aesop in Scots, and his narratives are regarded as the summit of early Scottish poetry.

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• PoetryThe Testament of CresseidRobert Henryson · 1500LiteraturePublic domain