James Beattie (1735-1803)
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 1882
Thomas Carlyle
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
JAMES HUNT (1784-1859).
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Joseph Addison
Oliver Goldsmith
Matthew Arnold
Samuel Johnson
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Oliver Goldsmith (1724-1774)
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
James Hogg.
Ralph Waldo EMERSON - 1803-1882 American poet and essayist. Emerson lecturing in England.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Edward Everett
Charles Lamb, (Penname Elia)
John Wilson ("Christopher North")
Herman Melville
Edward Lear in 1881
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963)
James Boswell
James Henry Leigh Hunt aged 44
JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719).
LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859).
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz.
King Lear 1604
Tiberius Psalter
Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
The Courting.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
Alfred Tennyson, lst Baron Tennyson (1809-1893)
Paolo and Francesca
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
Mary Howitt.
高村光太郎
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
Diana and Endymion
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Dead, by Rudyard Kipling
Christoph Martin Wieland.
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
James Henry Leigh Hunt.
Sir William Temple 1st Baronet
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Richard Steele
William Hazlitt
Washington Irving 1783 - 1859
Bonnell Thornton
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
Francesco Petrarca.
A camel.
Elephant.
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
Fan-shaped image showing counsellor for Emperor Yo-zei (869-949) seated right, delivering poem to poetess Ono Komachi (c825-c900)
The death of Minnehaha Illustration by Currier & Ives. 1867
The floating bridge of dreams.
After the illustration by Florence Anderson entitled Boadicea and the Druid, from the poem Boadicea by William Cowper
Illustration on the theme of war from, Poems of pleasure By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, illustration by Dudley tenant 1920
William Gifford, British poet and editor
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
Illustration For The Poem The Passionate Pilgrim By William Shakespeare
Boris Pasternak.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, 1854 1900
Miguel de Unamuno.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
JOSPEH ADDISON (1672-1719).
MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC
Timon of Athens 1607
FRANCIS THOMPSON
ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963).
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar
William Wilberforce
William Shakespeare
George Colman The Elder
SIR RICHARD STEELE
MICHEL de MONTAIGNE
WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835).
The Children of the Poor (Les Enfants Pauvres) - The Ragged Babes That Weep.
Dr Samuel Johnson.
Akinwande Wole Soyinka.
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Thomas Parnell.
Virginia Woolf (born Stephen - 1882-1941)
Technical support, satirical illustration
Illustration by Alphonse Mucha from "Rama" a poem in three acts by Paul Verola. ca.1898. Mucha (1860 1939). was a Czech Art Nouveau painter
POE: THE RAVEN.
dated 1823
Edmund Spenser reading one of his poems.
The Barefoot Boy.
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
Charles Lamb aged 23, Penname Elia
Charles Lamb in his thirtieth year,in the dress of a Venetian Senator. Penname Elia
Francis Bacon
Sir William Temple
Jonathan Swift
Vicesimus Knox
Jean De La Bruyere
Duel 1925
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 1925
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Sailed off in a wooden shoe 1925
Sailing the Wooden Shoe by Moonlight 1925
CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834).
Charles Lamb
Illustration for the poem 'The March of the Left'
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828 1910
Siyawush and Afrasiyab play polo; recto: text circa 1590-1600
Penny Readings.
Facsimile of a letter from Charlotte Bront.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
Charles Baudelaire.
The chimney sweep
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck.