Poetry Collection (page 3)

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

Page from the Barsegape manuscript
An illustrated page from the a manuscript of the Italian poet Pietro da Barsegape, showing people rising from the dead on the Day of Judgement. Date: 14th century

Poem illustrated by Walter Crane. Date: 1884

Bjornstjerne Bjornson
A portrait of Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910). A Norwegian writer and winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry

Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832 - 1914), poet, poetry critic and friend of Algernon Swinburne, pictured at his desk at his home, The Pines, Putney (which he shared with Swinburne)

Albert Craig, the so-called Surrey Poet (1859-1909) a popular character who composed poems which he recited at football and cricket matches, afterwards selling printed sheets of his verse to crowd

Albert Craig, the Surrey Poet
Albert Craig (1849 - 1909), known as The Surrey Poet. Craig was a well-known character who would attend cricket and football matches to write verses and short essays describing the players

Craig, The Surrey Poet, haranguing the crowd at the Oval cricket ground on the subject of Max Pemberton and professional football

Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. Date: 1875

Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)

English gentleman and bookseller staring at a young beauty
An English gentleman at a booksellers in Avignon, catching his first glimpse of the beauty Clara with her old aunt. First sight of Clara at Avignon

A Rose in Roses. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, The Gardeners Daughter. Date: c.1920

The shadow passeth when the tree shall fall. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Love and Death. Date: c.1920

But am I not the nobler thro thy love. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennyson s
But am I not the nobler thro thy love. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Love and Duty. Date: c.1920

Alas for her that met me. Illustration by Florence Harrison for Tennysons poem, Lyric from Maud. Date: c.1920

Bearing on my shallop. Illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons poem, Recollections of the Arabian Nights. Date: c.1920

At last I heard a voice up on the slope cry to the summit, is there any hope. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, The Vision of Sin. Date: c.1920

Break, Break, Break - illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons poem. Date: c.1920

Out upon the wharfs they came. Illustration by Florence Harrison from Tennysons poem, The Lady of Shallott. Date: c.1920

Out flew the web and floated wide. Illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons The Lady of Shallott. Date: c.1920

Joan of Arc a light of ancient France Illustration by Florence Harrison of Joan of Arc from Tennysons Dream of Fair Women. Date: c.1920

Whereto the other with downward brow... Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennyson s
Whereto the other with downward brow... Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Dream of Fair Women. Date: c.1920

Cartoon, The Ancient Mariner in the City (financiers)
Cartoon, The Ancient Mariner in the City -- a satirical comment on the difficulties financiers in the City of London were facing at the time, in a parody of Coleridges long narrative poem: Money

Helena and Hermia - female friendship in Shakespeare
Helena and Hermia sit sewing together, created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion - an example of female friendship in Shakespeare (A Midsummer Nights Dream). Date: 1841

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- Knight and Squire
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- the Knight and the Squire. Date: 14th century

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- Canons Yeomans Tale
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Canons Yeomans Tale, a two-part story about alchemists. Showing the Canon announcing his secret to the Priest, the Canon stirring the crucible

The Year of the Poets -- Christmas Mummers outside a large house, to illustrate a range of poems on the subject by Coleridge, Shakespeare and others. Date: 1845

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Nuns Priests Tale, a mock heroic story about a cockerel named Chanticleer (Chauntecleer), his wife Pertelote, and a wily fox. Date: 1845

The Year of the Poets -- Let Winter Come, to illustrate a range of poems on the subject by Spenser, Burns and others. Date: 1845

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Franklins Tale, a romantic story set in Brittany, about a couple, Dorigen and Arveragus, who decide that their marriage will be an equal one

The Year of the Poets -- Autumn, to illustrate a range of poems on the subject by Keats, Shelley, Shakespeare and others. Date: 1845

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Squires Tale, an unfinished (interrupted) story in the form of an epic romance about Genghis Khan (named here Cambuscan or Cambyuscan)

The Year of the Poets -- Jolly Summer, to illustrate a range of poems on the subject by Edmund Spenser and others. Date: 1845

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Friars Tale, showing the corrupt Summoner, the Devil and the Widow. Date: 1845

The Year of the Poets -- Maypole, St Andrew Undershaft
The Year of the Poets -- Maypole outside St Andrew Undershaft in the City of London, with people dancing round it, to illustrate a range of poems on the subject. Date: 1845

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

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

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Wife of Baths Tale (left). Also including the Knight solving the riddle (centre) and the Knight on his travels (right). Date: 14th century

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

The Year of the Poets -- Cuckoo in sparrows nest
The Year of the Poets -- a cuckoo in a nest of hedge sparrows, to illustrate a range of poems about cuckoos and other birds. Date: 1845

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Man of Laws Tale, about the life of Constance, or Custance, Christian daughter of the emperor of Rome

The British Valhalla -- conversion to Christianity
The British Valhalla -- the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon people (Paulinus before Edwin), a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes

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