Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 / 2008-06-18 00:00:00

EBOOK, PLAYFUL POEMS ***


This etext was produced by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset.


PLAYFUL POEMS, (by various authors)
EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY.


CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION
CHAUCER'S MANCIPLE'S TALE OF PHOEBUS AND THE CROW
Modernised by LEIGH HUNT.
CHAUCER'S RIME OF SIR THOPAS
Modernised by Z. A. Z.
CHAUCER'S FRIAR'S TALE; OR, THE SUMNER AND THE DEVIL
Modernised by LEIGH HUNT.
CHAUCER'S REVE'S TALE
Modernised by R. H. HORNE.
CHAUCER'S POEM OF THE CUCKOO AND THE NIGHTINGALE
Modernised by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
GOWER'S TREASURE TROVE
Modernised from the fifth book of the CONFESSIO AMANTIS.
LYDGATE'S LONDON LICKPENNY
LYDGATE'S BICORN AND CHICHEVACHE
DUNBAR'S BEST TO BE BLYTH
DRAYTON'S DOWSABELL
DRAYTON'S NYMPHIDIA
POPE'S RAPE OF THE LOCK
COWPER'S JOHN GILPIN
BURNS'S TAM O'SHANTER
HOOD'S DEMON SHIP
HOOD'S TALE OF A TRUMPET
GLOSSARY
NOTES
THE GAME OF OMBRE

INTRODUCTION

The last volume of these "Companion Poets" contained some of
Chaucer's Tales as they were modernised by Dryden. This volume
contains more of his Tales as they were modernised by later poets.
In 1841 there was a volume published entitled, "The Poems of
Geoffrey Chaucer Modernized." Of this volume, when it was first
projected, Wordsworth wrote to Moxon, his publisher, on the 24th of
February 1840: "Mr.
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