PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962).
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLE
WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE.
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Medieval maps, artwork
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
GEORGE ELIOT MANUSCRIPT.
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828).
TURKISH MINIATURE, 1330.
PHILIP THE GOOD (1396-1467).
Medina mosque enclosure, illustration
Blanche of France.
SCARLET LETTER, 1850.
SAND: 'ANDRE' MANUSCRIPT.
CLAUDINE EN M NAGE, 1902.
The floating bridge of dreams.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
1477 edition of the Grandes Chroniques de France
JANE FRANKLIN MECOM
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896).
TURKEY: HEROES, 1330.
Extract from Lycidas, written in 1637
From a page in the manuscript of Madame Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's handwriting
THEODORE ROOSEVEL
King Charles IV of France, receives gifts.
The Ball Given At The Mansion House In Honour Of The Coming Of Age Of The Lord Mayor's Son
ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
Manuscrit de la Sonate en la MINEUR POUR CLAVECIN by Mozart.
PROUST: REMEMBRANCE.
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE.
Mary Howitt.
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
Diana and Endymion
Penny Readings.
The Courting.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The chimney sweep
Japan
GOGOL: DEAD SOULS.
HARTMANN: PHILOSOPHIE.
The manuscript book of prayers.
Illustration of John Keats' poem 'Endymion', 1818
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892).
MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922).
COLERIDGE: MARINER.
VALENTINE'S DAY CARD.
Republican collection of poetry.
MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT.
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Dead, by Rudyard Kipling
Father William balancing an eel on his nose
Father William having eaten the Goose
Father William does a back somersalt
Father William standing on his head
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
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
Edmond Rostand.
The flower girl and the undertaker, 19th C illustration
SPENSER: FAERIE QUEENE.
Illumination depicting the Lamentation from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
SONG OF ROLAND
SONG OF ROLAND MANUSCRIP
Curing of a hemiplegic.
Illumination depicting the Story of Saints Anthony and Paul the Hermit from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
The Van Moerkerken Family
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917).
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing Mary with the infant Jesus. 13th century
VERLAINE: PO TES MAUDITS.
Armenian Christian illustrated manuscript showing the Genealogy of Jesus Christ. 14th century
The Emperor Lothair, from the Gospels of Lothair.
MILTON: PARADISE LOST.
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870).
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROLFE
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN
EARL OF SHAFTESBURY
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
Song dynasty (960 1279)
WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER
VICTOR HUGO MANUSCRIPT.
WALT WHITMAN MANUSCRIPT.
Petrarch's Virgil (title page) c. 1336 Manuscript. Illustrated by Simone martini
CHAUCER: CANTERBURY TALES.
DANTE: DIVINE COMEDY.
EUCLID: ELEMENTS.
Codex Zouche-Nuttall or Codex Tonindeye is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography.
CARROLL: ALICE, 1865.
CHAUCER: THE WIFE OF BATH
THE MILLER.
THE PARDONER.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Edward I returning from Gascony.
King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, his Queen.
The siege of a town.
The Resurrection from Caxton's Golden Legend printed 1483
ORESTES, 1st CENTURY A.D.
KALILA WA DIMNA.
UNICORN, 12th CENTURY.
Pygmalion, 14th century illustration
Pygmalion, 15th century illustration
FURY SAID TO A MOUSE, 1866.
WHITTIER: SNOW-BOUND
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The Wind in a Frolic.
ABOLITIONIST SONG, c1843.
POE: THE RAVEN.
HERBERT: THE CHURCH PORCH.
The Barefoot Boy.
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
William Gifford, British poet and editor
Evolution satire 'Monkeyana', 1861
The old man at death's gate, illustration
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Dr
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
Blind women looks out of her window.
ca. 1820s
19th century
Francesco Petrarca.
Coventry Patmore.
A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
AUGUST von SCHLEGEL
FRANKLIN: ALPHABET.
The distressed poet.
Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
Govert Bidloo, Dutch anatomist
Satire on gluttony, 17th century
Chanson de geste, historical illustration
Pittacus of Mytilene, Greek general
Boris Pasternak.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.