This poster takes its theme from Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose. The poem is a dream allegory about a young man’s pursuit of love represented by his quest for a perfect rose. Voysey’s vision of the theme is decidedly brighter and more optimistic than Burne-Jones’s painting in which we have only brambles and no buds. These reproductions have been redrawn and colored to closely resemble the originals and are 16 inches wide by 20 inches tall.
