Ugh, I have a really hard time deviating from my habits :P

Arthur Rackham, Illustration for the Goblin Market, 1933

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Brunhilde. Arthur Rackham. 1910.

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What if all children's books today were illustrated with such beauty and creativity?

(Illustrations done by Arthur Rackham)

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妖精の羽の色。

1. Charles Robinson
2. Warwick Goble
3. Arthur Rackham
4. Edmund Dulac

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Goblin Market (1933), illustrations by Arthur Rackham (English, 1867-1939).

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Good night, dear magical Twitter folk. Tonight I will leave you with "Mislead Night-wanderers, Laughing" by Arthur Rackham. He created this for an edition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1908.

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Inspiration: Arthur Rackham

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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
(art by Arthur Rackham)

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“I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,
Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:
Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire…”
–William Shakespeare, MND A3S1

🎨Arthur Rackham

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"...And when they came quite up to the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar."

- Hansel and Gretel,
The Brothers Grimm
🎨 by Arthur Rackham

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"We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?"
"Come buy," call the goblins
Hobbling down the glen.
-Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
🎨Arthur Rackham

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Sabrina Fair, Illustration for Comus by John Milton, Arthur Rackham, 1921.

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And for a buffet of illustrators, "A three-headed giraffe" by

Maurice Sendak
Edward Gorey
Arthur Rackham
Ralph Steadman

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In Cumbrian dialect, 'wiggen-tree' is the rowan tree. Plant a rowan tree in your garden to ward off evil influence, and provide a home for benevolent faeries


art: Arthur Rackham

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"...And when they came quite up to the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar."

- Hansel and Gretel, by the Brothers Grimm 🎨 by Arthur Rackham

https://t.co/QAC9VuqZr6

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She has more hair than she needs;
In the sun 'tis woe to me!
And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.
--from Witch-Wife by Edna St.Vincent Millay


🎨 Arthur Rackham

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(1/2) In an the magistrate's wife is summoned in her dream to assist an elven birth. While there, she furtively dabs her right eye with a magic ointment which allows her to see through that eye.

🎨#ArthurRackham

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5. HOBGOBLINS are well disposed towards humankind, if sometimes mischievous & tricksy, like Puck in Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Based on Robin Goodfellow, of folk tradition, he’s a shapeshifter; he also performs labours for humans, much like the Brownie 🎨Rackham

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4. GOBLIN MARKET This Victorian poem is an early example of goblins behaving badly; they stand in for predatory corrupting males, using forbidden faerie fruits to lure female victims to their doom. Image Rackham

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🏴‍☠️Rackham and his loyal dead friend named “Garfios”☠️ (that means “hooks” in English)
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