Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Chaucer for the nursery: the Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Franklin's and the Pardoner's, given in Mrs Haweis's modernised verse with the Middle English printed beside it. She wrote and illustrated it in 1877 for her own children, and it was one of the first attempts to give Chaucer to the young. The glossary and the pictures teach the language as much as the text does. Forty-six plates after Leighton and Millais, from Chaucer's own court to the North-West Passage, open the medieval world the verses describe.
Chaucer for the nursery: the Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Franklin's and the Pardoner's, given in Mrs Haweis's modernised verse with the Middle English printed beside it. She wrote and illustrated it in 1877 for her own children, and it was one of the first attempts to give Chaucer to the you...
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) was a customs officer, diplomat and member of parliament who wrote the Canterbury Tales in the London English of his day and thereby settled which English would be literary. He is buried in Westminster Abbey, the first in what became Poets' Corner.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) was a customs officer, diplomat and member of parliament who wrote the Canterbury Tales in the London English of his day and thereby settled which English would be literary. He is buried in Westminster Abbey, the first in what became Poets' Corner.
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