BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962).
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLE
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE.
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Medieval maps, artwork
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
TURKISH MINIATURE, 1330.
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828).
TURKEY: HEROES, 1330.
CLAUDINE EN M NAGE, 1902.
MILTON: PARADISE LOST.
SPENSER: FAERIE QUEENE.
Medina mosque enclosure, illustration
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
CAEDMON MANUSCRIP
PERSIAN WRITING.
GEORGE ELIOT MANUSCRIPT.
ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE
SCARLET LETTER, 1850.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
ELIOT: FOUR QUARTETS.
FURY SAID TO A MOUSE, 1866.
WHITTIER: SNOW-BOUND
The Emperor Lothair, from the Gospels of Lothair.
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
Tiberius Psalter
SONG OF ROLAND MANUSCRIP
JANE FRANKLIN MECOM
DOMESDAY BOOK, 1086.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1553.
ROSNARD: LE BOCAGE, 1554.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1555.
SAND: 'ANDRE' MANUSCRIPT.
PROUST: REMEMBRANCE.
1477 edition of the Grandes Chroniques de France
The floating bridge of dreams.
W.H. AUDEN: POEMS, 1930.
Republican collection of poetry.
中国文字
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Duel 1925
King Lear 1604
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 1925
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Sailed off in a wooden shoe 1925
Sailing the Wooden Shoe by Moonlight 1925
Illustration on the theme of war from, Poems of pleasure By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, illustration by Dudley tenant 1920
After the illustration by Florence Anderson entitled Boadicea and the Druid, from the poem Boadicea by William Cowper
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
LANGLAND: MANUSCRIPT, c1375.
HINDI WRITING.
LANGLAND: PIERS PLOWMAN.
HONORE de BALZAC (1799-1850).
GOGOL: DEAD SOULS.
HARTMANN: PHILOSOPHIE.
CANTERBURY CODEX AUREUS
PERSIAN KORAN, c1050 A.D.
SONG OF ROLAND
CARROLL: ALICE, 1859.
CHAUCER: CANTERBURY TALES.
DANTE: DIVINE COMEDY.
MONTESQUIEU: PENS ES.
EUCLID: ELEMENTS.
EUCLID: LATIN MANUSCRIPT.
From a page in the manuscript of Madame Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's handwriting
Codex Zouche-Nuttall or Codex Tonindeye is an accordion-folded pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography.
CHINESE POEM, 1187.
POPE: RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Pied Piper leading away children of German town of Hamelin
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
The Resurrection from Caxton's Golden Legend printed 1483
PERSIA: CALLIGRAPHY.
BEOWULF, 1000 AD.
BEOWULF, c1000 A.D.
17th Century manuscript front page
CALENDAR, 15th CENTURY.
BEOWULF, 1000 A.D.
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS
A river crossing on horseback.
SHAKESPEARE: POEMS.
読書の秋
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE.
Satire on gluttony, 17th century
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
Extract from Lycidas, written in 1637
Japan
A Lady About to Write a Poem
'Alexander at a Banquet'
DICTATUS PAPAE, 1075.
Illumination of the Queen of France, Isabel of Bavaria and the wife of Charles VI in her chambers
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
開いた本とドングリ
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
The manuscript book of prayers.
Portion of a page from the Manuscript of Wycliffe's Bible
Mary Howitt.
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
FRANKLIN: ALPHABET.
Siyawush and Afrasiyab play polo; recto: text circa 1590-1600
The Children of the Poor (Les Enfants Pauvres) - The Ragged Babes That Weep.
Timon of Athens 1607
Henry V 1613
高村光太郎
Chanson de geste, historical illustration
Pittacus of Mytilene, Greek general
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
Penny Readings.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
The chimney sweep
RONSARD: ODES, 1550.
RONSARD: EPITHALAME, 1549.
Edward Lear in 1881
Rhyme written on a speechbubble
SAADI: BUSTAN MANUSCRIPT.
BYZANTIUM: ICONOCLASM.
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870).
PIERRE PATHELIN.
DE L'ESPRIT des LOIX, 1748.
CAEDMON MANUSCRIPT.
PASTORIUS: PENNSYLVANIA
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROLFE
FRANKLIN: AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
NOAH WEBSTER (1758-1843).
COPTIC MANUSCRIPT, 893 AD.
KORAN, 8th CENTURY.
PENTATEUCH MANUSCRIPT.
KORAN, 14TH CENTURY.
KORAN PAGE, c1304.
MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT.
CHAUCER: THE WIFE OF BATH
THE MILLER.
THE PARDONER.
King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, his Queen.
The Tower of London.
Petrarch's Virgil (title page) c. 1336 Manuscript. Illustrated by Simone martini
KALILA WA DIMNA.
Pygmalion, 14th century illustration
Pygmalion, 15th century illustration
LOUIS XIV (1638-1715)
Illumination depicting the annunciation from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the nativity from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the flight into Egypt from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the deliverance of Barabbas from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Illumination depicting the darkness at the Crucifixion from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry