Poet Collection (page 9)

The Year of the Poets -- May, to illustrate a range of poems on the subject, including Edmund Spenser. Date: 1845

The Year of the Poets -- Spring Holidays, to illustrate a range of spring poems, showing people dancing round a maypole, and other seasonal activities. Date: 1845

Hudibras, mock-heroic poem by Samuel Butler -- Hudibras and the astrologer Sidrophel. Date: 1845

Wall painting from the Casa del Poeta Tragico
Trompe l oeil wall painting with vignettes, skirting, cornice, column, and mask from the House of the Tragic Poet, Casa del Poeta Tragico, Pompeii, excavated 1828

View of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii VI. 8. 5
View of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii VI.8.5. Showing the tablinum, impluvium (pool), well, peristyle (garden courtyard) and aedicula lararium (shrine)

Mosaic of a guard dog on a chain from the Casa del Poeta Tragico, House of the Tragic Poet, Regio VI, Insulae 8, 3, 5. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno

The beauty Euriant, mistress of the Count of Nevers
Euriant of Savoy, mistress of the Count of Nevers. The story of the beauty Euriant and Gerard de Nevers was related in La Roman de la violette by the poet Gerbert de Montreuil

Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), German poet, philologist and literary historian. Lithograph by P. Wurster from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848

Marie Daubron as La Belle aux Cheveux d Or, 1846
Madame Marie Daubron as La Belle aux Cheveux d Or by the Cogniard brothers, Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, 1846. She was the inspiration for the poet Charles Baudelaires Fleurs du Mal

Bard in sky-blue robes and ancient Britons
Bard in distinctive sky-blue robes with 12-string harp, Briton in the Roman fashion of multicolored cape and red tunic, and two female Britons in tunic and skirts

Queen Dido of Carthages banquet for the poet Aeneas. Dido in a tiara is flanked by Aeneas and her sister Anna on a raised platform, while servants bring food and drink to a platter on a tripod

Guillard d Anville, author of La Chastete 1624
Guillard d Anville, gendarme de la reine to the wife of King Louis XIII, author of La Chastete 1624. Handcoloured lithograph after an engraved portrait from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs

Henriette de Coligny, Comtesse de la Suze, French writer 1618-1673. Handcoloured lithograph after a contemporary print from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France

Bonaventure Desperiers, French writer, poet and painter, d. 1544. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres portfolios from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul

Anne de Graville, French poet and translator, 16th century
Anne de Graville, Lady Montagu, French poet and translator, daughter of Louis Malet, 16th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a miniature in the manuscript of l Histoire de

Louise Labe, la Belle Cordiere, French poet 1526-1566. Musician, equestrian, archer, fencer and linguist. Handcoloured lithograph after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres portfolio VIII 82 from Le

Alain Chartier, French writer and poet, 1386-1430. He wears a hat tied over his shoulders with a long scarf. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a figure in Jehan Mansels manuscript

Music teacher or poet with a woman with comic mask
Scene from a play. A woman with comic mask hands a small volume to another woman in front of a seated music teacher or poet. Vignette of four Bacchic masks with closed mouths of buffoons and dancers

Hans Sachs
Woodcut of Hans Sachs (1494-1576), German Meistersinger, poet, playwright and shoemaker

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthplace, Portland, Maine, USA
Birthplace of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1915

George Frederick Watts, statue of Tennyson
George Frederick Watts RA, painter and sculptor, working on a large statue of Alfred Lord Tennyson. circa 1900

William Roscoe, historian, poet and philanthropist
Monument to William Roscoe (1753-1831), English historian, abolitionist, poet and philanthropist. 19th century

Byrons Early Love by E M Ward. 19th century

Sketch cover - Futurist art
A futurist portrait of the futurist poet-leader (on the front cover of The Sketch magazine), Signor Marinetti, leader of the Futurist movement, by Signor Carra

Reverend Richard Polwhele, clergyman, poet and historian
Rev Richard Polwhele (1760-1838), Cornish clergyman, poet and historian of Cornwall and Devon. early 19th century

Catherine Gray, Lady Manners, Anglo-Irish poet
Catherine Gray, Lady Manners (1766?-1852), Anglo-Irish aristocrat and poet, wife of Sir William Manners, later Lady Huntingtower. early 19th century

Charlotte Turner Smith, English Romantic poet and novelist
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), English Romantic poet and novelist. circa 1790s

John Miltons cottage, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, where the poet and political writer lived during the Great Plague of 1665. Date: circa 1920s

Bocage centenary, Setubal, Portugal -- commemorating the death of Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805), Portuguese poet born in Setubal. Date: 1905

Stephen Phillips, English poet and dramatist
Stephen Phillips (1864-1915), English poet and dramatist. 1900

Owen Seaman (1861 - 1936), British writer, journalist and poet. He is best known as editor of Punch, from 1906 to 1932. Also author of A Harvest of Chaff, and The Battle of Bays. Date: 1905

Ts Eliot / Rothenstein
Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet, playwright and literary critic. Received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 Date: 1888-1965

CHARLOTTE EMBDEN Sister of Heinrich Heine, German poet and critic

MATILDE HEINE Wife of Heinrich Heine, German poet and critic

Title page, The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, with an illustration to the poem The Twa Dogs. Date: 1866

AUGUST BUCHNER German scholar and poet from Witteberg. Date: 1591 - 1661

Giordano Bruno - Italian cosmological theorist by Fidus
circa 1910s

Alger Seeks Inspiration Date: 1950

Alfred, Lord Tennysons House at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. Date: 1910

Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1581, by Torquat
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Italian poet. Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), 1581. Epic poem. Chant I. Printed in Venice, 1788

Game of chess
Otto IV, margrave of Brandenburg, depicted playing chess with his wife Hedwig von Holstein. Date: 14th century

GARIBALDI / TENNYSON
Garibaldi visits England : he calls on the poet Tennyson at Farringford, on the Isle of Wight. Date: April 1864

KRISTAN VON HAMLE
Kristan von Hamle, German poet and musician. Date: 13th century

KRAFT VON TOGGENBURG
Count Kraft III von Toggenburg, Swiss poet and singer, died in 1339. Date: early 14th century

The Distresst Poet
A distresst poet writes the verses which will, he hopes, bring him enough money to buy new clothes, food and drink, and enable him to move to somewhat better accommodation. Date: circa 1750

GRESSET WRITES
There was a French poet named Gresset, who was trying to write an essay, but the ink from his quill would splutter and spill, making poor Gressets essay so messy ! Date: circa 1750

DANTE / DORE / PARADISE
DANTE ALIGHIERI Italian poet with Beatrice in Paradise Date: 1265 - 1321

JOHN GOWER
John Gower, English poet and friend of Chaucer, aiming his arrow at a target Date: 14th century

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