#OTD #TDIH #April17, 1397 #GeoffreyChaucer tells #TheCanterburyTales for 1st time at #RichardIIOfEngland's court. #CanterburyTales #Chaucer #RichardII #Literature #LiteratureSky
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From Spring: A Folio Anthology, ed. Sue Bradbury.
Tuesday #latenightread
‘April Showers’ #GeoffreyChaucer
The first page of “The Knight’s Tale” from the early-15th-century Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”. The Knight is described has having conducted raids in Lettow(e) or Lithuania, probably as part of a crusade. Artist unknown, from the collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, U.S.A. (public domain; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chaucer_knight.jpg).
#Wiktionary #FWOTD for 11 March 2026: “Lettowe” (Middle English)—“Lithuania (a country in northeastern Europe)”. Today is #LithuaniaIndependenceRestorationDay; #Lithuania is first recorded in English as “Lettow(e)” in the #CanterburyTales by #GeoffreyChaucer. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktion...
"#ValentinesDay only became associated with #love in the late Middle Ages, thanks to the English poet #GeoffreyChaucer" — but Chaucer may have had May 3 in mind, not Feb. 14; #HappyValentinesDay, in any case~!
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The cover of The Monsters and the Critics by j r r Tolkien
TIL #Tolkien thought the #PearlPoet knew #GeoffreyChaucer. I don't know why but that blows mind!
Been a boring morning. Went paid rent watched my pay heck vanish then did some book hunting. Found these three pieces of classic fiction and fantasy #booksky #alandeanfoster #annemccaffrey #geoffreychaucer
“The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation...” - #GeoffreyChaucer (died: 25 October 1400)
DYK #GeoffreyChaucer was quite able to see the fun & joy of mixed-sex sex & all its tomfoolery in “The Canterbury Tales”? But he took #QueerSex as a sin. His parson calls it an “abhominable synne, of which that no man unethe [barely] oghte speke ne write.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
#WordFest #MythsAndLegends #OnThisDay #fantasy #books #bookstagram #horror #SciFi #LOTR #ReturnOfTheKing #Tolkien #UrsulaKLeGuin #Earthsea #Allegiant #VeronicaRoth #MichaelCrichton #JurassicPark #Batman #BobKane #GeoffreyChaucer #CanterburyTales #JimButcher #DresdenFiles
#writerslift #life #love #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #GeoffreyChaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, writing in the late 14th century, had a knack for cutting straight to human truths with a sly sense of humor. In "The Shipman’s Tale", he puts these words into the mouth of a character -
A quote from Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) about the danger that drunkenness poses to secrets. thehistorianshut.com/2018/04/04/g...
#history #quotes #GeoffreyChaucer
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EL LIBRO DE LA DUQUESA, DE GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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#chessillustration #ilustracióajedrez #geoffreychaucer
Good morning #booklovers! 🌞
🔴 1389 Geoffrey Chaucer is named chief clerk by Richard II
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#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".
🔴 2023 Fourteenth century document by a civil servant asking for time off identified as only known handwriting by Geoffrey Chaucer, the 'Father of English Literature'
#OnThisDay
#ThisDayinHistory
#OTD
#July10
#GeoffreyChaucer
Good morning #booksky! 🌞
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Had this at school. Not sure 13 years is the right age to appreciate Middle English. Luckily we had an English teacher who made it fun! #GeoffreyChaucer #ThePardoner’sTale
🔴1397 Geoffrey Chaucer tells the "Canterbury Tales" for the first time at the court of English King Richard II
#OnThisDay
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#OTD
#april17
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Good mornin #booksky! 🌞
QOTD. Do you know of any literary events that happened on this day?
QOTD. Have you read any books from today's list?
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#OTD #TDIH #April17, 1397 #GeoffreyChaucer tells #TheCanterburyTales for 1st time at #RichardIIOfEngland's court.
#CanterburyTales #Chaucer #RichardII #Literature
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"And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."
📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 17 April 1397 #GeoffreyChaucer read from "The Canterbury Tales" for the first time at the court of #KingRichardII of England, using English rather than courtly French.
He’s the reason I wanted to come to England, and why I wanted to see Bath. #geoffreychaucer #westminster #westminsterabbey
On 1March 1360 #Edward111 paid £16 towards #ransom for #GeoffreyChaucer captured on military service in #France. Bargain? #history #literature
"#ValentinesDay only became associated with #love in the late Middle Ages, thanks to the English poet #GeoffreyChaucer" — but Chaucer may have had May 3 in mind, not Feb. 14; #HappyValentinesDay, in any case~!
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"#ValentinesDay only became associated with #love in the late Middle Ages, thanks to the English poet #GeoffreyChaucer" — but Chaucer may have had May 3 in mind, not Feb. 14; #HappyValentinesDay, in any case~!
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Sipping a glass of wine on the sun deck of Geoffrey Chaucer, watching the world drift by.🍷 There’s nothing quite like river cruising - pure relaxation as we sail towards our next adventure.☀️
#Invited
#rivieratravel #RiverCruise #RhineCruise #Germany #TomAndDomTravel #ChooseCruise #GeoffreyChaucer
"Truth is the highest thing that man can keep." -Geoffrey Chaucer
"Truth is the highest thing that man can keep." -Geoffrey Chaucer
#truth #geoffreychaucer
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“The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation...” - #GeoffreyChaucer (died: 25 October 1400)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
Richard II of England appointed #GeoffreyChaucer chief clerk of the king's works #OnThisDay in 1389; the middle-class son of a wine merchant would go on to write "The Canterbury Tales," the greatest work of #literature in #MiddleEnglish...
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