Chaucer for Children / A Golden Key by Mrs. H. R. Haweis : (full image Illustrated)

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Chaucer for Children / A Golden Key by Mrs. H. R. Haweis : (full image Illustrated)

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          In revising Chaucer for Children for a New Edition, I have fully availed myself of the help and counsel of my numerous reviewers and correspondents, without weighting the book, which is really designed for children, with a number of new facts, and theories springing from the new facts, such as I have incorporated in my Book for older readers, Chaucer for Schools.
          Curious discoveries are still being made, and will continue to be, thanks to the labours of men like Mr. F. J. Furnivall, and many other able and industrious scholars, encouraged by the steadily increasing public interest in Chaucer.
          I must express my sincere thanks and gratification for the reception this book has met with from the press generally, and from many eminent critics in particular; and last, not least, from those to whom I devoted my pleasant toil, the children of England.
M. E. HAWEIS.
CHAUCER THE TALE-TELLER.
          Do you like hearing stories? I am going to tell you of some one who lived a very long time ago, and who was a very wise and good man, and who told more wonderful stories than I shall be able to tell you in this little book. But you shall hear some of them, if you will try and understand them, though they are written in a sort of English different from what you are accustomed to speak.
          But, in order that you really may understand the stories, I must first tell you something about the man who made them; and also why his language was not the same as yours, although it was English. His name was Chaucer—Geoffrey Chaucer. You must remember his name, for he was so great a man that he has been called the ‘Father of English Poetry’—that is, the beginner or inventor of all the poetry that belongs to our England; and when you are grown up, you will often hear of Chaucer and his works.
          CONTENTS
FOREWORDS TO THE SECOND EDITION
FOREWORDS
CHAUCER THE TALE-TELLER
CANTERBURY TALES:
Chaucer’s Pilgrims
Chaucer’s Prologue
The Knight’s Tale
The Friar’s Tale
The Clerk’s Tale
The Franklin’s Tale
The Pardoner’s Tale
MINOR POEMS:
Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse
Two Rondeaux
Virelai
Good Counsel of Chaucer