Chris Bond#1246 Peter Ackroyd - Chaucer: Brief Lives. Vintage Books, London, Random House, 2005, 1st Vintage edition.
#PeterAckroyd #VintageBooks #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #BookOfTheDay
Ed Wilk antifascistvia Chaucer Doth Tweet
@levostregc.bsky.social
Chris Aldrich
David Grayless#OnThisDay in 2023, Fourteenth-century document by a civil servant asking for time off identified as only known handwriting by #GeoffreyChaucer, the "Father of English Literature".
Lifestyle | The Guardian USOur highs and lows along the Pennine Way | Letters https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/15/our-highs-and-lows-along-the-pennine-way #Derbyshireholidays #Health&wellbeing #AlfredWainwright #GeoffreyChaucer #NorthYorkshire #Lifeandstyle #Walking #Travel #Maps
UberZeitgeistWhan that Aprille with
His shoures soote, the droghte
Of March hath perced
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #CanterburyTales #Canterbury #Prologue #Spring #Rain #Renewal #NewLife #Pilgrimage
April 5, 2025
𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists
Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)
“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...
Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”
https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1
#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?
Dope Old PersonI forgot I can't add alt text to multiple images... So here are images around #Canterbury #uk early in Sunday morning. The cathedral bells just stopped ringing, not many people are about at 9.30am - I was looking at statues... Which reflect the city's literary past. Aphra Behn was unveiled this week #AphraBehn #GeoffreyChaucer #ChristopherMarlowe ( which isn't of Marlowe)
Nikki WordsmithThis book that Handmaid Ofian is reading in the cupboard is the U.K. hardback first edition with a beautiful cover illustration by Fred Marcellino.
Today On Screen#OnThisDay, April 17, 1397, poet Geoffrey Chaucer read the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II, in English rather than Norman French. In the story, on April 17, 1387, the pilgrims set out on their journey (depicted in A Knight’s Tale, 2001)
#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #AKnightsTale #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #CanterburyTales
