Complete and full with numbers the narrative poetry of Robert Henryson - MacQueen, John (Rodopi, 2006)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index
Note; Introduction; Tragic Fable; The Aesopic Fables; The Beast Epic; Platonic Myth; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Index
This book presents a major re-examination of the works of the fifteenth-century Scottish poet, Robert Henryson. Encompassing the full range of the poet's work, Professor John MacQueen opens up previously unexplored areas of both Henryson's literary practice and his underlying moral and philosophical vision. MacQueen argues that numerology is central to the intellectual landscape that shaped Henryson's development as a poet, and that numerological patterns and structures are embedded throughout his corpus, revealing themselves not simply in such overtly allegorical works as The Testament of Cre