Edmund Spenser reading one of his poems.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
An allegory of Tudor succession showing Mary I of England and her husband King Philip II of Spain, next to him is the God Mars, King Henry VIII, and Queen Elizabeth I.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
SPENSER: FAERIE QUEENE.
Engraved portrait of Edmund Spenser
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
ALLEGORY OF FIRE.
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
ARIOSTO: ORLANDO FURIOSO.
The death of Minnehaha Illustration by Currier & Ives. 1867
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
Painting titled 'An Allegory with Venus and Cupid' by Agnolo di Cosimo
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
Shakespeare's birth place, Stratford-Upon Avon. England
Clair de lune sur la mer.
ALLEGORY: ARTIST TOOLS.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Mary Howitt.
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
Diana and Endymion
The Courting.
Boris Pasternak.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
Night Goddess.
John Bunyan, 1628 1688
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Illustration of Queen Elizabeth I
William Brooke Baron Cobham and his family.
Christian relieved of his burden
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
Parade shield.
Hierbey sollman spurn.
Illumination of the Queen of France, Isabel of Bavaria and the wife of Charles VI in her chambers
MARIE-OLYMPE de GOUGE
James Beattie (1735-1803)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
RONSARD: ODES, 1550.
RONSARD: EPITHALAME, 1549.
Elizabeth I inspects her troops at Tilbury.
Lady Jane Grey.
Brumidi's allegorical painting.
The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I of England.
Elizabeth I of England.
Henry VIII of England.
Twilight.
Evening Star over the Sea.
Ariadne in Naxos.
Giant Grim and Feeble-Mind
Christian and Evangelisaint From The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Christian meeting Timorous and Mistrusaint From The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
The Delectable Mountains from the housetop
Christian Leaving the City of Destruction
FRANKLIN: WAY TO WEALTH.
SHAKESPEARE: HENRY VIII.
GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT.
Daughters of the Mist.
Moonbeams dipping into the Sea.
'May,' An Allegorical Design By W. Harvey
Allegory of Spring.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
The Barefoot Boy.
Paolo and Francesca
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
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
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Edmond Rostand.
Robert Burns.
Francesco Petrarca.
Coventry Patmore.
Thomas Parnell.
A camel.
Elephant.
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
Mary I of England.
REYNARD THE FOX, 1846.
EDMUND SPENSER (1552?-1599).
EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599).
Tudor period leather manufacture at a private home based tannery; English circa 1570
Feather icon
from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
The distressed poet.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
LOUIS XVI (1754-1793)
Song dynasty (960 1279)
THREE LIVING & THREE DEAD.
Giant Despair discovers Christian and Hopeful on his grounds
Queen Elizabeth I of England.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
SHAKESPEARE: POEMS.
The Night
Ceiling of Marie Antoinette's Salon
高村光太郎
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
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
Ramavataram, popularly referred to as Kamba Ramayanam.
TAROT CARD: THE FOOL.
TAROT CARD: THE DEVIL.
The floating bridge of dreams.
Republican collection of poetry.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
ALLEGORY: FAME.
portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England reigned 1558-1603
ALLEGORY: PLUTOCRACY.
Allegory of the 1st partition of Poland.
ALLEGORY: WIND.
ALLEGORY: PEACE AND POWER.
MATHEMATICAL ALLEGORY.
ALLEGORY: FEBRUARY.
SYMBOLS: EAGLE.
SYMBOLS: AMERICAN EAGLE.
CHERUB, 18th CENTURY.
CHERUBIM, 18th CENTURY.
And so she pines, and so she died forlorn, imploring for her Basil to the lasaint Illustration to the poem Isabella, or The Pot of Basil by John Keats
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941).
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
JAPAN: SCHOLARS.
Three Poems
Two Poems
"The Harvest Table" by Jean Gigoux.
The Tree Of Battles
The Nonsuch Palace.
A Tudor zither and music book.
HENRY VIII (1491-1547).
QUEEN ELIZABETH I.
KING HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND.
KING HENRY VII OF ENGLAND
JANE SEYMOUR (1509-1537).
CATHERINE HOWARD
CATHERINE OF ARAGON
ANNE BOLEYN (1507-1536).
ANNE OF CLEVES (1515-1557).
KING HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND
HENRY VII OF ENGLAND