- The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene
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The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene is a poem by the Scottish northern renaissance poet Robert Henryson that adapts and develops the Greek myth which most famously appears in two classic Latin texts, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and the Georgics of Virgil.
Jacopo del Sellaio, Orpheus and Eurydice, c.1480
The Morall Fabillis The Taill of the Cok and the Jasp · The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous · The Taill of Schir Chanticleir and the Foxe · The Confessioun of the Tod · The Parliament of the fourfuttit Beistis haldin be the Lyoun · The Taill of the Scheip and the Doig · The Taill of the Lyoun and the Mous · The Preiching of the Swallow · The Taill of the Foxe, the Wolf and the Cadgear · The Taill of the Foxe that begylit the Wolf in the Schadow of the Mone · The Taill of the Wolf and the Wedder · The Taill of the Wolf and the Lamb · The Taill of the Paddok and the Mous
Other works The Testament of Cresseid · Orpheus and Erudices · Robene and Makyne · The Annuciation · Sum Practysis of Medecyne · Ane Prayer for the Pest · The Garment of Gud Ladeis · The Bludy Serk · The Thre Deid-Pollis · Against Hasty Credence · The Abbay Walk · The Praise of Age · The Ressoning Betwix Aige and Yowth · The Ressoning Betwix Deth and Man
Categories:- Poetry stubs
- Works by Robert Henryson
- Scottish poems
- Narrative poems
- 15th-century poems
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