(which is among the pieces here reprinted) being used. The volume
was published in 1841, not by Moxon but by Whitaker. Wordsworth's
versions of "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" (here reprinted), and
of a passage taken from "Troilus and Cressida," were included in it.
Leigh Hunt contributed versions of the Manciple's Tale and the
Friar's Tale (both here reprinted), and of the Squire's Tale.
Elizabeth A. Barrett, afterwards Mrs. Browning, contributed a
version of "Queen Annelida and False Arcite." Richard Hengist Horne
entered heartily into the venture, modernised the Prologue to the
Canterbury Tales, the Reve's Tale, and the Franklin's, and wrote an
Introduction of more than a hundred pages, to which Professor
Leonhard Schmitz added thirty-two pages of a Life of Chaucer.
Robert Bell, to whom we were afterwards indebted for an "Annotated
Edition of the English Poets," modernised the Complaint of Mars and
Venus. Thomas Powell, the editor, contributed his version of the
Legends of Ariadne, Philomene, and Phillis, and of "The Flower and
the Leaf," and a friend, who signed only as Z. A. Z, dealt with "The
Rime of Sir Thopas."

After the volume had appeared, Wordsworth thus wrote of it to
Professor Henry Reed of Philadelphia: "There has recently been
published in London a volume of some of Chaucer's tales and poems
modernised; this little specimen originated in what I attempted with
'The Prioress' Tale,' and if the book should find its way to America
you will see in it two further specimens from myself. I had no
further connection with the publication than by making a present of
these to one of the contributors. Let me, however, recommend to
your notice the Prologue and the Franklin's Tale. They are both by
Mr. Horne, a gentleman unknown to me, but are--the latter in
particular--very well done. Mr. Leigh Hunt has not failed in the