Posts Tagged ‘Chaucer’
Medieval Morsels: A Gardener’s Guide to Chaucer-Era Edibles
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. October 5, 2017 On this day, dear garden enthusiasts and history aficionados, a most intriguing tome graced the shelves of our literary world. Liza Picard’s Chaucer’s People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England burst forth…
Read MoreJames Henry Leigh Hunt’s “May and the Poets”: A Garland of Verse for Spring
by Leigh Hunt There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior, May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer; May’s in all the Italian books — She has old and modern nooks, Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves, In happy places, they call shelves, And will rise…
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