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History:
1343AD – 1400AD, a civil servant and
courtier to Edward III and Richard II, he is revered as one of the first great
figures of English literature, most often as the author of the Canterbury Tales,
and Troilus and Criseyde. His many works established English as a language of
literature, being the first English poet to use heroic couplets and iambic
pentameter, and influencing those who followed, such as Shakespeare, Dryden and
Spencer. His humor and depiction of the common man have endeared him to
generations since his burial in Westminster Abbey 1400AD. In reaction to the
mass production of the Industrial Age, the 19th Century Arts and Crafts movement
sought to revive medieval traditions of design. The natural forms of the
medieval art were synthesized into a new style which anticipated the art
nouveau. Its founder and principle force was William Morris amongst whose many
endeavors, was the founding of the Kelmscott press in collaboration with Edward Byrne-Jones. This ring has
been adapted from the typeface and border patterns of Morris’s edition of
Chaucer’s works, now known as the Kelmscott Chaucer. The quotation, “And
she was fayr as is the rose in
May,” is from Chaucer’s Legend of Cleopatra.
Genuine, Museum Authorized Reproduction
hand-cast by the lost-wax method in the US.
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Visit your Poesy Ring:
This Old English original can be found at the British Museum, London England,
Department of Medieval and Modern Europe, and is dated 16th to 17th century.
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