The Riddle: A Pleasant Pastoral Comedy, Adapted From the Wife of Bath's Tale as It Is Set Forth in the Works of Master Geoffrey Chaucer, Presented at ... on Midsummers Eve, 1895

by Walter Alexander Raleigh

Excerpt from The Riddle: A Pleasant Pastoral Comedy, Adapted From the Wife of Bath's Tale as It Is Set Forth in the Works of Master Geoffrey Chaucer, Presented at Otterspool on Midsummers Eve, 1895

Fame, this riddle, wherein the tastes of thy humerons and worthy posterity of danghters are investigated and unravel/ed, is dedicated with remote wen era tion hy thy degenerate Great.

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36 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1895

About the author

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English scholar, poet, and author. Raleigh was also a Cambridge Apostle. He was Professor of English Literature at Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh in India (1885–87), Professor of Modern Literature at University College Liverpool (1890–1900), Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at Glasgow University (1900–1904), and in 1904 became the first holder of the Chair of English Literature at Oxford University. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford (1914–22). He was knighted in 1911.[