🪶🤍🪶"If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed." 📖Jean Cocteau #BookWormSat #FolkloreSunday

Emperor Justinian with a dragon at his feet at the beginning of his law code: what I call a gloss! BL Harley 3753; Codex Justiniani in 9 books, with gloss; c.1250; England, Central (possibly Oxford); f.4r Medieval Manuscripts

British children's literature often starts a story with a group of siblings going on holiday. Their walks & summer leisure start a process of discovery to magic landscapes. It is a distinct genre linked to national culture. #ChildrensLit #FolkloreSunday

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows…” On sunlit hills where thyme blooms and the moon still lingers, folklore says the fairies hold their revelries. Thyme is a herb of dreams and magic, flowering where the veil between worlds grows thin at midsummer. #FolkloreSunday

Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea Gebbeth

"Oh well done. I commend your pains, And every one shall share i' the gains. And now about the cauldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in." - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth" (Act 4, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday

#HBD to French painter, teacher and writer ANDRE LHOTE, #BTD in (1885-1962). "To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth." Self Portrait Les Deux Amies Sur La Terrasse Le Port de Bordeaux #art #artists #artist #painter #paintings #paint

Beatrice Goldsmith "Watching the Fairies", (1925) #FolkloreSunday

BRITISH GOBLINS This remarkable painting is inspired by Rossetti's 1862 poem 'Goblin Market'. It's painted by English artist Hilda Koe (c. 1901). 'We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?'

Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion A&C [IV:I4] #ShakespeareSunday

… a long line of shapes, with a shining about them. They were like men who drew the bow, and with another shout, their cloud of arrows flew singing and tingling through the air towards the German hosts. The Bowmen A Machen #BookChatWeekly #WW1 art: Mary Evans Picture Library

Hi everyone, the #FolkloreSunday theme is changing for THIS AFTERNOON. We shall now explore the #folklore of FLOWERS, FRUIT & VEGETABLES, ESPECIALLY IN JULY . See you with your posts on the hashtag soon! Maude xx Image: July by Eliot Hodgkin

"'You are fettered,' said Scrooge, trembling. 'Tell me why?' 'I wear the chain I forged in life,' replied the Ghost." - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

“The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.” 📖“The Remains of the Day” ~ Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989 #BookchatWeekly #SundayBookChoices 🎥“The Remains of the Day”, 1993 1:45pm TODAY Film4

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke” -

6pm TODAY on BBC Radio 4 extra Poetry Extra Tongue and Talk - The Dialect Poets: A Festival of Dialect Daljit Nagra selects Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets: A Festival of Dialect with writer Catherine Harvey in Blackpool. From 2020. #BookchatWeekly bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Celebrate the creative spirit of Beatrix Potter with The Tale of Beatrix Potter – a rare 1946 first edition biography by Margaret Lane. mflibra.com/products/1946-… This charming volume traces the life of the beloved author and illustrator, capturing her passion for storytelling,

Skare of Ember from "Ghost Planet" (1985) by Jon Bing. #bookchatweekly Commission done by Anna 🌷☕

Hanging out at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival!🌞