Poet Collection (page 6)

August Strindberg
Portrait of Johan August Strindberg, he was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience. Date: 1912

The pilgrims way from London the Tabard inn to the shrine of a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. A shine to St Thomas Becket who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral 850 years ago

October calendar page, woman in classical costume
October calendar page, photograph of woman in classical costume by a rose arch. Captioned, The Fair Months of the Year: October'

September calendar page, woman in classical costume
September calendar page, photograph of woman in classical costume by a pillar. With quotation from Dryden, Fair As The Face Of Nature Did Appear When Flowers First Peep D

Walter Herries Pollock, journalist, seated studio portrait
Walter Herries Pollock, writer, poet, lecturer and journalist, (1850-1926) seated studio portrait. Captioned Journals and Journalists of Today: XXXVI. Date: 1895

Last portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Last portrait of the British Victorian poet and author Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), who died on April 10th

Leading poets during the reign of King George V
Leading poets during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Kipling, Bridges, Masefield, Drinkwater. Date: 1935

Aldworth, Blackdown, West Sussex, the house where Tennyson lived and died Date: 1928

Monument to Victor Hugo, 1890. Sculpture by Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). French sculptor. Monument to Victor Hugo, 1890. Bronze. Garden of Sculptures. Rodin Museum. Paris. France. Date: 2008

Fray Luis de Leon (1527-1591). Spanish poet
Fray Luis de Leon (Belmonte, 1527-Madrigal de las Altas Torres, 1591). Spanish poet. Portrait. Illustration by Llanta. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Spanish writer. Author of Don Quixote. Portrait, detail. Illustration by Jose Cebrian. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana

Juan de Fermoselle (1468-1529), called Juan del Encina. Spanish poet, playwiright and composer. Illustration by Llanta. Detail. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana

Payo Gomez Charino (ca. 1225-1295)
Payo Gomez Charino (ca.1225-1295). Galician poet and nobleman. Major governor (Adelantado Mayor) of the Kingdom of Galicia and troubadour in the Galician language. Portrait, detail

Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch Martinez (1806-1880). Spanish writer. Representative of the romantic drama. Portrait. Chromolithography

Robert Louis Stevenson
A portrait of Scottish novelist and poet, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, best known for works including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Date: 1892

The Curtain Illustration
An illustration in reference to a poem, written by Australian poet, Zora Bernice May Cross, showing a woman in a blue dress, hiding behind a stage curtain

Henry Lawoson
A portrait oil painting of Australian writer and bush poet, Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson, renowned for writing great short stories, such as The Drover's Wife, and The Loaded Dog. Date: 1900

Louis Esson
A portrait oil painting of Scottish born, Australian poet and playwright, Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson, who wrote plays such as The Time is Not Yet Ripe (1912) and The Drovers (1922)

Joan Keats
A portrait profile sketch of English romantic poet, John Keats, who died of tuberculosis at the mere age of 25. Date: circa 1922

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, writer, poet and traveller
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)was a prolific poet and novelist, penning more than 70 books. As well as being married to a man for fifteen years

Lord Howard de Walden, illustration by W Howard Robinson, in fencing outfit with epee and face guard. Captioned I was ever a fighter'

Portraits of William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet

Tomb of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Old Highgate Chapel
The Tomb of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, Old Highgate Chapel, North London. Date: 1869

Sir Edmund Gosse, English poet, author and critic, by Imre Laszlo Unvardy aka Spy Junr Date: 1927

House where Lord Byron died, Missolonghi, Greece
House where Lord Byron died, in Missolonghi, Greece, in 1824. 1850

Divine Comedy. Fifth Canto of the Purgatory. Dante talks wit
Divine Comedy. Epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. Dante talks with Pia dei Tolomei, one of the three people who died violently. Engraving by Gustave Dore. Colored

John Keats Grave Graves Death Burial Headstone
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Illustration, Death and Doctor Hornbook
Illustration to Death and Doctor Hornbook, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Anna Louisa Karsch - German writer and poet
Anna Louisa Karsch (1722-1791), German writer and poet, known as "Die Karschin"

John Donne, poet and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral
John Donne (1572-1631), poet and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral -- monument in the Old St Paul's, which he commissioned for himself before his death

Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, American writer
Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945), American novelist, poet and playwright, best known for two novels: The Quick or The Dead? (1888) and World's End (1914). Date: 1914

Victor Hugo - On deathbed
Victor-Marie Hugo (18021885) - French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman and exponent of the French Romantic movement. Date: 1885

Harold Pinter, English writer, director, political activist
Harold Pinter (1930-2008), English playwright, poet, screenwriter, actor, theatre director and left-wing political activist. Seen here giving a speech. Date: circa 1980s

Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and communist politician
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet and Communist Party politician, previously named Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Date: circa 1960s

Ogden Nash, popular American poet
Frederic Ogden Nash (1902-1971), American poet popular for his light verse. Date: circa 1960s

Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist
Muriel Spark (1918-2006), Scottish novelist, best known for her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Date: circa 1960s

Alexei Surkov, Soviet Russian poet, editor and journalist
Alexei Surkov (1899-1983), Soviet Russian poet, editor and journalist. Date: circa 1960s

Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist
Walter (Walt) Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist and journalist. Seen here in later life, in a photograph which he has signed and dated. Date: 1872

Enoch Powell, controversial British politician
(John) Enoch Powell (1912-1998), British politician and Conservative MP from 1950 to 1974. After controversy over his Rivers of Blood speech in 1968

Stephen Spender, English poet, novelist and essayist
Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995), English poet, novelist and essayist. Date: circa 1960s

Brendan Behan, Irish writer and republican
Brendan Behan (Brendan Francis Behan, 1923-1964), Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also an Irish republican and IRA volunteer

William Morris, artist, writer, publisher and socialist
William Morris (1834-1896), English textile designer, artist, writer, publisher and socialist, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement

Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

Robert Browning C1889 Iln Import 21 Dec 07 December
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John Milton's (1608 - 1674), English poet and intellectual, house at 19 York Street (Petty France), where he lived until the Restoration

PETRARCH (1304-1374). Italian humanist and poet. Triumphs, Sonnets, and Songs. Miniature with the Triumph of the Death

Shakespeare Commemoration, Planting Oak on Primrose Hill
Samuel Phelps planting the young oak tree at the foot of Primrose Hill, London, to honour the English poet, William Shakespeare. Date: 23rd April 1864

Samuel Phelps planting the young oak tree at the foot of Primrose Hill, London, to honour the English poet, William Shakespeare. Date: 23rd April 1864

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