Poets Collection (page 2)

Cat and Elizabethan poet on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Andre and M-J Chenier
The poets ANDRE MARIE and MARIE-JOSEPH-BLAISE de CHENIER, both revolutionaries, Andre was guillotined for opposing excesses, but his brother survived. Date: 1762 - 1794

Albert Memorial (View 1 ) poets - one side of Albert Memorial (Poets figures one with lyre). Part of Box 34 Boswell Collection - London Streets. Date: circa 1890s

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). English poet and philos
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). English poet, critic and philosopher. Romantic Movement and member of the Lake Poets. Portrait by Washington Allston, 1814. National Gallery. London

Fountain on Park Lane, London. The fountain was built in 1875 and contained statues of Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer. It was removed from this site when Park Lane was widened in the 20th century

Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902). Catalan poet. Monument. Perpin
Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902). Catalan poet. Figure of the Renaixenca, a national revival movement of the late Romantic era. Monument. Perpinya. France

George Herbert ( 1593 A?i? 1633). Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest. Engraving, 18th century. Colored

John Donne (1572- 1631) English poet and cleric in the Churc
John Donne (1572- 1631) English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. Engraving by W. Bromley

George Herbert ( 1593 1633). Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest. Engraving, 18th century

John Milton (1608-1674). British poet. Paradise lost. Colore
John Milton (1608-1674). British poet. Paradise Lost. Epic poem in blank verse. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books

Picture No. 10062436
Poets and musicians honour the happy couple

Study for Frontispiece by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Study for Frontispiece to The Early Italian Poets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), engraved by James Davis Cooper (1823-1904). Date: 1884

STORNI, Alfonsina (1892-1938). Latin-American poets of the modernist period. Poesic; in餩 tas y 餩 tas. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid

Thomas Carew (1595-1640) - English poet, among the Cavalier group of Caroline poets. Member of the Court of King Charles I. Date: circa 1635

Emile Cammaerts
Emile Leon Cammaerts (1878-1953), Belgian poet, playwright and writer. He wrote a biography of King Albert I of Belgium and became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London

Lady Margaret Sackville (1881 - 1963), poet and childrens writer. She was the daughter of the 7th Earl de la Warr. During the First World War Sackville joined the anti-war Union of Democratic Control

Gilbert Frankau, 1916
Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952), writer and war poet. Frankau served in the British Army from the outbreak of war in 1914, first in the 9th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment

A Poet in Khaki - Edmund John
Private Edmund John (1883-1917), poet and soldier in the Artists Rifles during World War One. Photograph featured in The Bystander at the time his new book of poems

Portrait photograph of Stanley Holloway, English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and monologist

Herbert and Cynthia Asquith during World War One
Herbert Asquith (1881 - 1947), poet, novelist and lawyer, second son of British Prime Minister, Henry Herbert Asquith. Pictured in 1915 during his service with the Royal Artillery

Tomb of Hafez
The tomb of MOHAMMAD SHAMS OD-DIN HAFEZ, considered the greatest of Persian lyric poets. Date: 1390

RONSARD, Pierre de (1524-1585). French poet
" RONSARD, Pierre de (1524-1585). French poet. Known as " Prince des po败s et po败 des princes" (Prince of poets and poet of princes). Engraving."

ESQUIVEL Y SUAREZ DE URBINA, Antonio Marѡ(1806-1857)
ESQUIVEL Y SUAREZ DE URBINA, Antonio MarС (1806-1857). The Gathering of the Poets. Work also known as The Contemporary

Eight Kyoka poets 2 Eight Ky?ka poets 2
Eight Kyoka poets 2. Print shows three men and a woman (poets); one man is standing behind a low screen, reading; another is sitting on the floor in front of the screen

Six poets. Print shows Murasaki with five elderly men, all wise men and/or poets. Date between 1795 and 1806

Eight great Kyoka poets Eight great Ky?ka poets
Eight great Kyoka poets. Print shows four men (poets) looking at a scroll. Date between 1818 and 1824

Eight Kyoka poets Eight Ky?ka poets
Eight Kyoka poets. Print shows four men (poets). Date between 1818 and 1824

Eight great Kyoka poets 2 Eight great Ky?ka poets 2
Eight great Kyoka poets 2. Print shows four men (poets) sitting around a table with an open book. Date between 1818 and 1824

An updated version of the six poets. Print shows five men and one woman, variously dressed and some holding an item associated with them. Date 1794 or 1795

Parodies of poems by the 36 master poets. Japanese prints shows eight scenes and text with various people and activities including Americans; ship; Japanese men tying a bundle, reading, fishing

Portrait of Chaucer

Silhouette portrait of Shelley
Silhouette portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), English romantic poet. Date: c.1815

Parnassos Oros
Mount Parnassus, near Delphi, is where Apollo and the Muses hang out : the other peak is sacred to Bacchus, hence the association of poets with wine and ale. Date: 1850

Charles Hamilton Sorely (1895-1915) - A Scottish poet who was sent to the Western Front in 1915 after several months of training with the Suffolk Regiment

Caedmon leaving a feast
Caedmon is the first named English poet. This illutration depicts how he started writing poetry. He worked as a herdsman at Whitby Abbey

Ben Jonson and William Drummond
Ben and his host had many a long talk together, discussing men and books. Poet and dramatist Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) smoking a pipe and talking with Scottish poet William Drummond (1585 - 1649)

Westminster Abbey - Poets Corner
Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey, London Date: circa 1910s

Poets Corner - Westminster Abbey, London

Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey, 1860
Engraving showing the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey, where many of the greatest poets of England are buried or commemorated, 1860

View of Shiraz, Iran
General view of Shiraz in southwest central Iran, birthplace of poets Sadi and Hafez, today a busy industrial and commercial city

Masons Song
Song On Masons and Masonry with amazing words : Their godlike Actions reach ye Skies, Heroes & Kings revere their Name and Poets sing their deathless Fame

Pembroke / Mary Herbert
MARY HERBERT nee SIDNEY COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE Patron of poets, and founder of Pembroke College, Cambridge

Samuel Marshak
SAMUEL MARSHAK Russian writer and satirist, later a prolific writer for children : he also made many translations of English poets, including Shakespeare

Stained Glass West Abbey
Windows in Westminster Abbey representing the poets George Herbert and William Cowper, donated by the American benefactor George William Childs

Divine Comedy: Inferno
Homer, the Classic Poets. The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto four

House of Lords, Exterior
HOUSE OF LORDS, EXTERIOR the Kings entrance to the House of Lords from Poets Corner

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