In 1809, stung by criticisms of his work and angered by being double-crossed out of a potentially lucrative commission of Chaucer illustrations, decided to put on his own art exhibition.

It was a colossal failure. 1/x

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Unlike French chivalric romances (and Chaucer), which opened with the first bloom of spring, English romances often took place around Christmas.

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The River Neckinger swirls with stories. Is it named for a water spirit or the noose that hung here? Did Cnut change its course in 1016? Chaucer's pilgrims crossed it. Dickens took Twist to Jacob's Island, the rookery in the marsh where its waters met the Thames

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"Yes, they even banned The Canterbury Tales." 3/3/2017 https://t.co/RgcbLNPMyh
Some Chaucer in the collections here (fully digitized) Takamiya MS 32 https://t.co/LKz7eG0SL5 Takamiya MS 24 https://t.co/ixTnrPMwmq

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Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twining around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & put into a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. Image: Cicely Barker

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Hi! I make semi-regular diary comics with occasional guest appearances by Chaucer, Bruce the Horse, my cat, my kid, Switzerland, and pigeons.

Get books and postcards here! https://t.co/x5DyQJSx8E

See some art here!
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🎨Sir William Russell Flint
“Grisilde of this, god woot, ful innocent, That for hir shapen was al this array, To fecchen water at a welle is went ... (Clerkes Tale)"
from: "The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer"

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Another of Chaucer’s ”good” women... https://t.co/JwdAxBq7j5

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Happy ! Did you know Both Elizabeth & William Gaskell were interested in the way in which the Lancashire dialect had its roots in Anglo-Saxon & in its usage by authors such as Shakespeare and Chaucer? Find out more in our blog https://t.co/NKqZRR2fAE

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Jamie McKelvie’s () Loki redesign, first appearing in Young Avengers (2013), draws inspiration from Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, Paul Bettany’s Chaucer in A Knight’s Tale, & Jack Kirby’s original design, in particular, the snake-like scale mail. (1/2)

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This week for (late) we present some ornate initials from Geoffrey Chaucer’s A.B.C. called La Prierie de Nostre Dame, printed in San Francisco by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in an edition of 1000 copies in 1967. Learn more here: https://t.co/4jb5RmQgme

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Big Portsmouth Fish installed Chaucer House Portsmouth

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THRILLED! Honoured! I have TWO short-listed books for the Chaucer Awards! https://t.co/b7dKpir749

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Fantastic news! Swords of the King makes the Shortlist for the CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction https://t.co/3royyIGfWW & congrats to friends and fellow authors in this group!

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"In olde dayes of the king Arthour, Of which that Britons speake great honour, All was this land full fill'd of faerie...But now can no man see non elves mo..."

-from Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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In th'olde days of the king Arthour,
Of which Britons speken greet honour,
Al was this land fulfild of fayerye.
(Chaucer, late 14th century)

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When you've been binge watching anime and see nothing but over dramatic anime characters act out Chaucer's poems in English assignments 😬

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“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Experience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

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April to Chaucer meant showers and flowers. At WAM, April heralds new spring Studio Art classes. See new catalog! https://t.co/z7oHBeizcA

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