JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962).
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE.
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828).
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLE
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
SPENSER: FAERIE QUEENE.
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Medieval maps, artwork
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
BALZAC: LA FEMME SUP RIEURE.
MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT.
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
Romeo & Juliet 1593
BEOWULF, 1000 A.D.
RONSARD: ODES, 1550.
RONSARD: EPITHALAME, 1549.
TURKISH MINIATURE, 1330.
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
LANGLAND: MANUSCRIPT, c1375.
LANGLAND: PIERS PLOWMAN.
DANTE: DIVINE COMEDY.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
The visit from the madwoman from Charlotte Bront's 'Jane Eyre'.
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
Edmund Spenser reading one of his poems.
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
The death of Minnehaha Illustration by Currier & Ives. 1867
John Keats.
BEETHOVEN: GHOST TRIO.
BEOWULF, 1000 AD.
BEOWULF, c1000 A.D.
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
TURKEY: HEROES, 1330.
Diana and Endymion
ALESSANDRO MANZONI
FRIEDRICH G. KLOPSTOCK
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
James Beattie (1735-1803)
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Medina mosque enclosure, illustration
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
GOETHE: WERTHER.
CLAUDINE EN M NAGE, 1902.
MILTON: PARADISE LOST.
A Bavarian Maud Muller, raking a Meadow with Hay.
SCARLET LETTER, 1850.
SAND: 'ANDRE' MANUSCRIPT.
GEORGE ELIOT MANUSCRIPT.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1553.
ROSNARD: LE BOCAGE, 1554.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1555.
SHAKESPEARE: POEMS.
VALENTINE'S DAY CARD.
Alexander Pushkin.
ELIOT: FOUR QUARTETS.
FURY SAID TO A MOUSE, 1866.
Page from 'XV O'es' by William Caxton.
Petrarch's Virgil (title page) c. 1336 Manuscript. Illustrated by Simone martini
The Ancient Mariner.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON.
WALT WHITMAN MANUSCRIPT.
ROBERT BURNS SONNET, 1793.
Mary Howitt.
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
The Courting.
Boris Pasternak.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
DOMESDAY BOOK, 1086.
Higurashi; Spider
from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
(Hasami-mushi)
imomushi
(batta); Praying Mantis (Toro or Kamakiri)
(Mukade)
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Coventry Patmore.
Paper Wasp (Hachi); Hairy Caterpillar (Kemushi)
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
ARIOSTO: ORLANDO FURIOSO.
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
Fan-shaped image showing counsellor for Emperor Yo-zei (869-949) seated right, delivering poem to poetess Ono Komachi (c825-c900)
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE
Lovely heart
INDIA: RAMAYANA, 1813.
The Emperor Lothair, from the Gospels of Lothair.
From a page in the manuscript of Madame Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's handwriting
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE.
CAEDMON MANUSCRIP
PERSIAN WRITING.
James Russell Lowell.
CHAUCER: CANTERBURY TALES.
EUCLID: LATIN MANUSCRIPT.
EUCLID: ELEMENTS.
HONORE de BALZAC (1799-1850).
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
William Gifford, British poet and editor
Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
Illustration For The Poem The Passionate Pilgrim By William Shakespeare
LA CHANSON DE ROLAND.
WHITTIER: SNOW-BOUND
Von Jacquin botanical notes, 18th century
Alba Bible introduction, 15th century
DICTATUS PAPAE, 1075.
PERSIAN KORAN, c1050 A.D.
ROMANCE OF THE ROSE.
MOZART: STRING QUARTETS.
MOZART: SONATA.
BACH: MANUSCRIPT, c1732.
King Lear 1604
Thomas Gray
Illustration for No Trifling with Love. by Alfred Louis Charles de Musset
Illustration of a shepherd with a flute from the Fables of Florian
The poet Nezami recounts the tales of Alexander the great
ROSSINI: MANUSCRIPT PAGE.
CIMAROSA MANUSCRIPT.