THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Alfred Tennyson, lst Baron Tennyson (1809-1893)
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
POE: THE RAVEN.
King Lear 1604
Tiberius Psalter
A Lady About to Write a Poem
The Courting.
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
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
Oliver Goldsmith (1724-1774)
Paolo and Francesca
JAPAN: SCHOLARS.
Mary Howitt.
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
高村光太郎
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.
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Cities, by Rudyard Kipling
Album of Eighty-eight Prints from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu)
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
Thomas Parnell.
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
Chanson de geste, historical illustration
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
Francesco Petrarca.
A camel.
Elephant.
Edward Lear in 1881
The floating bridge of dreams.
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
dated 1823
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
The Barefoot Boy.
Illustration For The Poem The Passionate Pilgrim By William Shakespeare
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
Boris Pasternak.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Timon of Athens 1607
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
The old man at death's gate, illustration
The Children of the Poor (Les Enfants Pauvres) - The Ragged Babes That Weep.
Lovely heart
Govert Bidloo, Dutch anatomist
Satire on gluttony, 17th century
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
Higurashi; Spider
from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
(Hasami-mushi)
imomushi
(batta); Praying Mantis (Toro or Kamakiri)
(Mukade)
Song dynasty (960 1279)
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
Edmund Spenser reading one of his poems.
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941).
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
Hamlet 1600
Duel 1925
The Wind in a Frolic.
HERBERT: THE CHURCH PORCH.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 1925
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Sailed off in a wooden shoe 1925
Sailing the Wooden Shoe by Moonlight 1925
BYRON: MAZEPPA.
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Illustration for the poem 'The March of the Left'
Siyawush and Afrasiyab play polo; recto: text circa 1590-1600
Penny Readings.
Thomas Craig, Scottish legal scholar
A POLO GAME, c1535.
ARIOSTO: ORLANDO FURIOSO.
Bias of Priene, Greek philosopher
The flower girl and the undertaker, 19th C illustration
The chimney sweep
At the Tsutsui Well
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1553.
ROSNARD: LE BOCAGE, 1554.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1555.
William Gifford, British poet and editor
A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:/Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care
Southern Song dynasty (1127 1279)
Edmond Rostand.
Robert Burns.
Coventry Patmore.
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
Merchant of Venice 1597
Romeo & Juliet 1593
Raven
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Poet
Edo period (1615 1868)
ca. 1820s
probably 1818 (Year of the Tiger)
ca. 1827
vol. 1
vol. 1)
early to mid-1810s
ca. 1805 10
probably 1810s
from the series History of Kamakura (Kamakura shi)
ca. 1814
1810s
from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo)
from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo
Japan
'Alexander at a Banquet'
Aphra Behn
Pied Piper leading away children of German town of Hamelin
TURKISH MINIATURE, 1330.
William Wilberforce
William Shakespeare
Our Wherry Waits.
Blind women looks out of her window.
Morte D'Arthur 2005
COLERIDGE: MARINER.
TORY PANDEMONIUM, c1775.
RADIO PLAY, c1942.
The visit from the madwoman from Charlotte Bront's 'Jane Eyre'.