Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Dead, by Rudyard Kipling
The Courting.
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
A camel.
Elephant.
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
Boris Pasternak.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
A man using shadows to tell a story.
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
Francesco Petrarca.
The Mad Hatter reciting his nonsense poem Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
Hudibras and Ralpho in the stocks.
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
Illustration for the Poem 'Wine' by Charles Pierre Baudelaire
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
Mary Howitt.
Lynch Law -California.
Dr
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The visit from the madwoman from Charlotte Bront's 'Jane Eyre'.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
SITTING BULL (c1831-1890).
Thomas Parnell.
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
Edmond Rostand.
Coventry Patmore.
William Gifford, British poet and editor
Illustration For The Poem The Passionate Pilgrim By William Shakespeare
Learner and Teacher.
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
RUSSIA: SOLDIERS, 1895.
Alexander Pope
A father telling his children a story.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
POE: THE RAVEN.
Paolo and Francesca
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
The floating bridge of dreams.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
Diana and Endymion
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
Penny Readings.
JAPAN: SCHOLARS.
Edo period (1615 1868)
Saint Peter denying Christ., Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866.
James Beattie (1735-1803)
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941).
Francis Bret Harte
Pied Piper leading away children of German town of Hamelin
The distressed poet.
Charles Churchill
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
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Barefoot Boy.
Thomas Craig, Scottish legal scholar
The Wind in a Frolic.
The old man at death's gate, illustration
Joseph Rudyard Kipling, 1865 1936
Illustration for No Trifling with Love. by Alfred Louis Charles de Musset
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Blood letting
Illustration depicting a scene from the final tale in The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio
from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
After the illustration by Florence Anderson entitled Boadicea and the Druid, from the poem Boadicea by William Cowper
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Oliver Goldsmith (1724-1774)
Charles Golightly.
A satirical version of Romeo and Juliet.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, nee Stevenson, 1810 1865, aka Mrs Gaskell
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
Father William balancing an eel on his nose
Father William having eaten the Goose
Father William does a back somersalt
Father William standing on his head
HERBERT: THE CHURCH PORCH.
Blind women looks out of her window.
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
King Lear 1604
Fan-shaped image showing counsellor for Emperor Yo-zei (869-949) seated right, delivering poem to poetess Ono Komachi (c825-c900)
Robert Burns.
George Gordon Byron, or Lord Byron (1788-1824), English Poet, Portrait, Engraving, 1876
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Romantic Poet, Engraving, 1876
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
Thomas Carlyle
The death of Minnehaha Illustration by Currier & Ives. 1867
Higurashi; Spider
from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
(Hasami-mushi)
imomushi
(batta); Praying Mantis (Toro or Kamakiri)
(Mukade)
Thomas Hardy, 1840 1928
Emily Jane Bronte, 1818 1848
Charlotte Bronte, 1816 1855
William Shakespeare
BYRON: MAZEPPA.
Woodcut illustration from a 15th century edition of 'Das Narrenschiff' (The Ship of Fools).
Alfred Tennyson, lst Baron Tennyson (1809-1893)
CHARLES CHURCHILL
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:/Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care
CHINESE POEM, 1187.
Cervantes, Spanish author
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologist
Illustration for the poem 'The March of the Left'
'Lucrezia Borgia' by Hugo, 19th-century illustration
Jules Verne, French novelist
CARROLL: LOOKING GLASS.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
Henry Fielding
Ramavataram, popularly referred to as Kamba Ramayanam.
The Ancient Mariner.
The chimney sweep
RADIO NEWS, 1926.
ALASKA: POSTCARD, c1930.
Illustration depicting Ensign Stubble and Captain Dobbin from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
A man burning books on a bonfire.
Illustration of John Keats' poem 'Endymion', 1818
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), Prominent English Poet, Portrait, Engraving, circa 1876
A scene from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Title page for an illustrated version of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
A scene from Macbeth.
A scene from King John.
Scene from Voltaire's play 'Irene' (1778)
Govert Bidloo, Dutch anatomist
Satire on gluttony, 17th century
EVELYN WAUGH (1903-1966).
Illustration on the theme of war from, Poems of pleasure By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, illustration by Dudley tenant 1920
Cartoon by John Tenniel.
Edward Lear in 1881
Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856
COLERIDGE: MARINER.
MILTON: PARADISE LOST.