ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLE
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
ROSSINI: MANUSCRIPT PAGE.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891).
From a page in the manuscript of Madame Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's handwriting
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892).
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962).
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828).
PROUST: REMEMBRANCE.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROLFE
AUGUST von SCHLEGEL
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Medieval maps, artwork
COPTIC MANUSCRIPT, 893 AD.
KORAN, 14th CENTURY.
KORAN, 10th CENTURY.
MEDIEVAL KORAN.
MEDIEVAL KORAN
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE.
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
The Courting.
Mary Howitt.
Diana and Endymion
NOAH WEBSTER (1758-1843).
KORAN, 8th CENTURY.
PENTATEUCH MANUSCRIPT.
MYSTERY PLAY, 15th CENTURY.
WALT WHITMAN MANUSCRIPT.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
EDUARD MOERIKE (1804-1875).
SYRIAC MANUSCRIPT.
WAGNER: DAS RHEINGOLD.
DANTE: DIVINE COMEDY.
LUTHER: PSALM 34.
EGYPTIAN KORAN.
TURKISH MINIATURE, 1330.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
SAND: 'ANDRE' MANUSCRIPT.
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
The manuscript book of prayers.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
GEORGE ELIOT MANUSCRIPT.
CLAUDINE EN M NAGE, 1902.
LINCOLN: SPEECH, 1864.
SCARLET LETTER, 1850.
MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922).
JANE FRANKLIN MECOM
Medina mosque enclosure, illustration
VERLAINE & RIMBAUD.
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
JOHANN STRAUSS (1825-1899).
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The Barefoot Boy.
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
VIVALDI MANUSCRIPT.
LANGLAND: MANUSCRIPT, c1375.
LANGLAND: PIERS PLOWMAN.
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
Boris Pasternak.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
RIMBAUD W/ VERLAINE.
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870).
CODEX ALEXANDRINUS.
WYCLIFFE BIBLE
MEISTERGESANG, 16th CENTURY.
TURKEY: HEROES, 1330.
SONG OF ROLAND
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1861.
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1868-71.
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1880.
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1882.
ST. MATTHEW GOSPEL.
PROUST: NOTEBOOKS.
MOZART: STRING QUARTETS.
THOMAS EDISON (1847-1931).
MEDIEVAL MUSIC MANUSCRIPT.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
MADISON: ACCOUNT BOOK.
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.
DE L'ESPRIT des LOIX, 1748.
LATIN BIBLE MANUSCRIPT.
CODEX SINAITICUS.
COPTIC MANUSCRIPT.
WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER
WAGNER: DIE WALK RE, 1856.
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
Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
Higurashi; Spider
from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
(Hasami-mushi)
imomushi
(batta); Praying Mantis (Toro or Kamakiri)
(Mukade)
GOGOL: DEAD SOULS.
HARTMANN: PHILOSOPHIE.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
The floating bridge of dreams.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941).
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
MOZART: REQUIEM, 1791.
HONORE de BALZAC (1799-1850).
VERDI: RIGOLETTO, 1850.
Edmund Spenser reading one of his poems.
Paolo and Francesca
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
SPENSER: FAERIE QUEENE.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1865.
BRAHMS MANUSCRIPT, 1876.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
BEETHOVEN: MANUSCRIPT.
BEETHOVEN: MANUSCRIPT
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827).
SHAKESPEARE: POEMS.
The Emperor Lothair, from the Gospels of Lothair.
SONG OF ROLAND MANUSCRIP
The chimney sweep