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Where do you get ideas for characters? Why you must look at life, not just books
I was talking to some very interesting English literature professors this weekend and discovered an area where academics and authors are on completely different pages. It’s this: where authors get their characters. Many moons ago I studied English literature at university. I remember it as a vast journey that started with Icelandic sagas and Beowulf… Continue reading Where do you get ideas for characters? Why you must look at life, not just books…
https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/where-do-you-get-ideas-for-characters-why-you-must-look-at-life-not-just-books/#Howtowriteabook #bookreview #books #charactersinfiction #Chaucer
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Every so often, reading about (some) politicians (and others) reminds me of Chaucer's
“but only with the rich and victual-sellers”.Mutatis mutandis for today: replace “victual”, insert more occupations before “friar”, keep “rich” and “profit".
Nothing new under the Sun, but We the People must not shrug this off.
Of course.#Chaucer
#ChaucerOnPolitics
#ChaucerQuote
#ClassicQuote
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Summer's soft yellow
Summoning pollinators
"Veyne in swich licóur"#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Summer #July #Flower #Nature #Nature #Flowers #Yellow #Summoning #Chaucer #CanterburyTales #Flora #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
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Monument of Geoffrey Chaucer as pilgrim, High Street, Canterbury (Kent) | April 2023
#Chaucer #CanterburyTales #literaryheritage #culturalmemory #monument #photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #Nikon
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Statue of Geoffrey Chaucer as a Canterbury Tale Pilgrim, High Street, Canterbury, April 2023
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingplace #Canterbury #Kent #Chaucer #CanterburyTales #literature #literaryheritage #statue #lieudememoire
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Tom Gauld on Chaucer’s first unboxing video in The Guardian.
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Whan that Aprill commes
And bathes every veyne
Soote swich licour#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #April #Rain #Chaucer #CanterburyTales #Prologue #Literature #Medieval #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
April 6, 2026
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#1246 Peter Ackroyd - Chaucer: Brief Lives. Vintage Books, London, Random House, 2005, 1st Vintage edition.
#PeterAckroyd #VintageBooks #Chaucer #GeoffreyChaucer #BookOfTheDay
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What does a singing bear have to do with Chaucer?
A lot, it turns out.
Together with Jennifer S. Carnell (HMML), we trace how the Marian chant Alma redemptoris mater shaped medieval ideas about learning — from schoolrooms to miracles to manuscript images.
Open access:
https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag011/8496039#MedievalStudies #Chaucer #Musicology #MedievalMusic #Chant #AlmaRedemptoris #AcWri #Research #AcademicChatter
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Explore the rich history of Valentine’s Day, shaped by saints, poets, and scholars who turned love into a lasting culture. #ValentinesDay #SaintValentine #Chaucer #Shakespeare #RomanHistory #MedievalCulture #CourtlyLove #HistoryOfLove #CulturalHistory #PhilosophyOfLove #SeekReflectEvolve
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Uniting for the first time the concepts of #Medievalism & #ReceptionStudies this collection edited by Ellie Crookes & Ika Willis includes topics as diverse as #StarWars #RobinHoos & #Chaucer & #Victorian perspectives on #AnneBoleyn & the crusades & more
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It's a circuitous route via Greek, Latin, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare (and others) to get from Pandaros in the Iliad to "pander" in English.
#TheIliad #Greek #Latin #Boccaccio #Chaucer #Shakespeare #Pandaros #pander #etymology
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"We walk in the garden of his turbulence... yeaAHHH!" (God, I loved Chaucer.)
▶️ A Knight's Tale Introduction by Chaucer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GY8YvSq3wZU&si=CiXO28MjhVBRMpku
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Picked up a little light reading at Powell’s while waiting to see Pericles.
#Reading #Literature #Chaucer #Shakespeare #PDX #Theater #PDXArt #PDXTheater #Theatre #Pericles
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Reminder that the 14th century author, #Chaucer wrote the seminal manuscripts of #TheCanterburyTales and taken as a novel, or a connected series of short stories, is a story about a #RoadTrip. Trip out!
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started a #wikipedia article on Vassar professor and librarian, Amy Louise Reed (1872-1949): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Louise_Reed @wikiwomeninred @vassar #NYU #Chaucer #Hawthorne
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🤔 Oh joy, another thrilling adventure into the world of Middle English texts – because who doesn't want to read #Chaucer without footnotes? 📜 Apparently, the bold and daring mission to bring ye olde texts to the masses can only be sustained if everyone empties their wallets now that #NEH has bounced, because nothing says "medieval" quite like #crowdfunding. 🤑
https://metseditions.org #MiddleEnglish #LiteraryAdventure #MedievalTexts #HackerNews #ngated -
"Aprill with his shoures soote" kann man ja heute so sagen, aber von "perced to the roote" dürfte wohl keine Rede sein.
#Chaucer #CanterburyTales #Englisch #Dürre #Regen #April #BloomScrolling #Garten
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Whan 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
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The Description Of Sir Geoffrey Chaucer
by Robert Greene (1558–1592)HIS stature was not very tall,
Lean he was, his legs were small,
Hosed within a sock of red,
A buttoned bonnet on his head,
From under which did hang, I ween,
Silver hairs both bright and sheen.
His beard was white, trimmèd round,
His countenance blithe and merry found.
His sleeveless jacket large and wide,
With many plights and skirts side,
Of water camlet did he wear;
A whittle by his belt he wear,
His shoes were cornered, broad before,
His inkhorn at his side he wore,
And in his hand he bore a book.
Thus did this ancient poet look. -
The Chaucerian: How a German school teacher became the world’s most prolific Chaucer scholar, and then was promptly forgotten https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/the-chaucerian/ #Chaucer #MedievalStudies
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You reminded me, CatSalad, of the opening lines of Kermit's Canterbury Tales:
"Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
...So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
Thanne longen frogges to goon on pilgrimages..."
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CW: King Henry II kills, literature 5/5
AIUI the Church quickly turns Tom into a martyr.
Pilgimages to Canterbury Cathedral boom.
Did having Tom as a martyr make the King , as instigator, an unholy abuser, at least until he's forgiven? Did this weigh against the #DivineRightOfKings.And you get one guess on whose shrine the pilgrims in #Chaucer's #CanterburyTales (1400) are headed to.
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https://ianchadwick.com/blog/chaucers-house-of-fame/
Chaucer’s dream journey also allows him to comment on the differences between reality and illusion, or more widely on the nature of perception. What is a dream, he asks, and what is a nightmare. Why do we all have different visions? Why do we dream at all? #chaucer -
https://forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/let-your-works-be-dead-the-haunting-house-of-fame/
Came across this 2016 blog last night about Chaucer's House of Fame poem. I've seen the poem in Riverside but never paid it much attention. Now I'm intrigued to read it and learn more.
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Happy #ValentinesDay ! It’s time for us to ruin the mood, as we do every year, by posting our video about the word “Cuckold”, and how it connects to Valentine’s Day (via Chaucer)
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #Cuckold #Chaucer
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2025 book eleven: Peter Ackroyd: Chaucer ⭐️⭐️⭐️
#bookstodon #bookstagram #nonfiction #paperback #2025books #chaucer #peterackroyd
