EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962).
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLE
WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE.
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828).
Mary Howitt.
Diana and Endymion
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Medieval maps, artwork
WALT WHITMAN MANUSCRIPT.
TURKISH MINIATURE, 1330.
GEORGE ELIOT MANUSCRIPT.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
Emily Dickinson.
DANTE: DIVINE COMEDY.
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
SCARLET LETTER, 1850.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Courting.
Queen Elizabeth I receiving a manuscript from the poet George Gascoigne.
TURKEY: HEROES, 1330.
From a page in the manuscript of Madame Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's handwriting
CLAUDINE EN M NAGE, 1902.
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
James Beattie (1735-1803)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The Barefoot Boy.
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
FRANKLIN: ALPHABET.
JANE FRANKLIN MECOM
Boris Pasternak.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
Medina mosque enclosure, illustration
LANGLAND: MANUSCRIPT, c1375.
LANGLAND: PIERS PLOWMAN.
ALESSANDRO MANZONI
FRIEDRICH G. KLOPSTOCK
DINESEN: MS. PAGE, 1909.
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870).
WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892).
1477 edition of the Grandes Chroniques de France
ROBERT BURNS SONG.
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
Edmond Rostand.
Francesco Petrarca.
Coventry Patmore.
WAGNER: GOTTERDAMMERUNG.
PHILLIS WHEATLEY
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
EMILY BRONT : POEM.
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
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
SAND: 'ANDRE' MANUSCRIPT.
Petrarch's Virgil (title page) c. 1336 Manuscript. Illustrated by Simone martini
The floating bridge of dreams.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
THOMAS EDISON (1847-1931).
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Edmund Spenser reading one of his poems.
Paolo and Francesca
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
HONORE de BALZAC (1799-1850).
The manuscript book of prayers.
GOGOL: DEAD SOULS.
HARTMANN: PHILOSOPHIE.
VERDI: RIGOLETTO, 1850.
Japanese print of the author Thomas Carlyle.
DEBUSSY MANUSCRIPT.
GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858-1924).
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE
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).
PROUST: REMEMBRANCE.
The chimney sweep
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827).
The Emperor Lothair, from the Gospels of Lothair.
SONG OF ROLAND MANUSCRIP
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
ROBERT BURNS SONNET, 1793.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
William Gifford, British poet and editor
GEORGE GERSHWIN.
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.
Robert Burns.
A camel.
Elephant.
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
ROSSINI: MANUSCRIPT PAGE.
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1861.
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1868-71.
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1880.
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1882.
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917).
The poet Nezami recounts the tales of Alexander the great
PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL, 1755.
MILTON: PARADISE LOST.
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
Phillis Wheatley, African American author
King Lear 1604
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE.
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
CHAUCER: CANTERBURY TALES.
The Virgin Mary and Child.
14th century. Armenian Evangelical manuscript. The Virgin Mary and infant Jesus
ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS
UNICORN, 12th CENTURY.
PASTORIUS: PENNSYLVANIA
King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, his Queen.
MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT.
CHAUCER: THE WIFE OF BATH
KALILA WA DIMNA.
FRANKLIN: AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
COPTIC MANUSCRIPT, 893 AD.
Penny Readings.
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
Republican collection of poetry.
Manuscrit de la Sonate en la MINEUR POUR CLAVECIN by Mozart.