Henryson

British  

/ ˈhɛnrɪsən /

noun

1. Robert. ?1430–?1506, Scottish poet. His works include Testament of Cresseid (1593), a sequel to Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, the 13 Moral Fables of Esope the Phrygian, and the pastoral dialogue Robene and Makyne

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Example Sentences

These images were captured by the photographer Maxine Henryson in an ongoing eight-year collaboration they called “I-Dea The Goddess Within.”

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2022

Naomi Henryson, 102, offered up the secret to a long life: “There is no secret.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2017

Robert Henryson, "an accomplished man and a good and genuine poet," was born about the year 1425, and died near the close of the century.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

How good it could be, without any convention at all, Henryson showed once for all in our own language by Robene and Makyne.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

But with Dunbar, Henryson, and others, Scotland had a school of poets much superior to any that England had reared since the death of Chaucer. 

From A Short History of Scotland by Lang, Andrew