at Leicester University College, supervised by Monica Jones, she worked as a schoolteacher before entering academia. Wendy Ann Craik was born in East Finchley, North London, in 1934, and evacuated to the countryside in World War Two. After The Tudor Interlude (1958) and The Comic Tales of Chaucer (1964) he devoted himself chiefly to the critical editing of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He taught English at Leicester University College (later Leicester University), Aberdeen, Dundee and Durham, where he was Professor of English from 1977 until his retirement in 1989.
Thomas Wallace Craik was born in Warrington, Cheshire, in 1927, and educated at the Boteler Grammar School there, from which he won an Open Exhibition in French and English to Christ's College Cambridge, where he studied under F.
A master of dramatic monologues, he is considered one of the foremost Victorian poets. Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright. This unique book is intended for all ages. This work contains over 40 illustrated pages with hand lettering and includes a foreword by Roger Craik detailing this book's creation by his parents. From the pillaging rats to the gluttonous council members, every pen and brush stroke brings Browning's moral home. The pages have bold, imaginative drawings, deep lines, rich colors and fine (often idiosyncratic) details. The dramatic events that Browning recorded in 1842 marvelously unfold in the Craiks' illustrations. Robert Browning's poem captures the mysterious nature of the Piper legend and the resplendent, rich time period in which the tale took place, which has inspired many great illustrators such as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Margaret Tarant, and Maxfield Parrish. BlazeVOX presents for the first time this wonderful edition, originally created in 1959 as a gift by the illustrators to their young son. This facsimile of Robert Browning's THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN: A CHILD'S STORY is beautifully illustrated and colored by T.
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