![]() ![]() Desperate to rid the city of the vermin, the corrupt and repulsively corpulent mayor is surprised when a musician arrives-dressed in unusual, multicolored clothing-and offers to eliminate all of the rats in exchange for a payment of one thousand guilders. ![]() Generations have since delighted in Browning's cautionary tale, which-due to the author's inventive wordplay, engaging characters, and moralistic message-has become ensconced as a canonical work of children's literature.Īs The Pied Piper opens, the town of Hamelin is grappling with an infestation of rats. ![]() Reputedly based on a retelling of a medieval legend in Nathaniel Wanley's Wonders of the Little World (1678), the poem tells a story of civic venality and retribution surrounding a piper hired by the citizens of Hamelin to rid the town of rats. The following entry presents criticism on Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1842) through 1988.Ī perennial favorite in the English-speaking world, Browning composed The Pied Piper of Hamelin as a gift for the son of his friend and benefactor William Macready-the poem was published later in the author's Dramatic Lyrics (1842). ![]()
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