The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Other Poems
By Robert Browning
Cover: The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1888), engraving by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), engraved by Edmund Evans (1826-1905) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1901)
Browning's story of the piper who rid Hamelin of rats and then, unpaid, led away its children comes here with his other tales in verse for the young, Hervé Riel, the Cavalier Tunes, Incident of the French Camp and Clive. It is the schoolboys' selection of 1910 from the Every Boy's Library. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.