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Pictures

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Frontispiece from The Song of Los, William Blake

image credit: Library of Congress

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Li Bai strolling. Ink on paper, by Liang K'ai (13th century).

image credit: public domain

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Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1786) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

image credit: public domain

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Illustration from Jami's Rose Garden of the Pious, 1553. A Persian miniature painting with verses.

image credit: Zereshk

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Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante Aligheri's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon. "And lo! towards us coming in a boat / An old man, hoary with the hair of eld, / Crying: 'Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!'" (Longfellow's translation) "And, lo! toward us in a bark / Comes an old man, hoary white with eld, / Crying "Woe to you, wicked spirits!" (Cary's translation)

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American poet Walt Whitman in 1884 at the age of 65. Photograph by George C. Cox

image credit: public domain

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Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony (circa 1882)

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Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by Édouard Manet.

image credit: Édouard Manet, 1876, Musée d'Orsay

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Early version (partial) of Goethe's Faust (1790)

image credit: public domain

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The ceiling of the Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Iran.

image credit: Pentocelo

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"Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry", by Charles Meynier (1789-1800)

image credit: public domain

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Door with inscription, Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas, a form of palindrome

image credit: © Guillaume Piolle / CC-BY-3.0

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Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, engraving by I.H. Jones (1825)

image credit: public domain

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French poet and Symbolist painter Albert Aurier

image credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

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French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau

image credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

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French poet Stéphane Mallarmé

image credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Italian poet Pietro Bembo by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1532-1537)

image credit: public domain

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Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat (circa 1862)

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“ As in the Arsenal of the Venetians

Boils in the winter the tenacious pitch
To smear their unsound vessels o'er again,

For sail they cannot; and instead thereof
One makes his vessel new, and one recaulks
The ribs of that which many a voyage has made;

One hammers at the prow, one at the stern,
This one makes oars, and that one cordage twists,
Another mends the mainsail and the mizzen

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Inferno, Dante, verso 21, translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

image credit: M0tty

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Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1810)

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Theatrical poster for The Raven, 1908

image credit: Library of Congress

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What If, poem by Andrew Motion, building, Sheffield, England

image credit: Rept0n1x

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Concrete poem by George Herbert (1633)

image credit: public domain

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Satirical cartoon about the Volstead Act, based on Mother Goose children's nursery rhymes, 1922

image credit: public domain

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Nonsense verse and illustration by Edward Lear, from A Book of Nonsense I

image credit: public domain

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Plaque with poem by Lucille Clifton

image credit: Kathleen Conklin

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Akashi Gidayu writing his death poem before committing Seppuku

image credit: public domain

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"Poesis", Raffaello Morghen, circa 1781

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Elisa von der Recke

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Robert Burns, by Archibald Skirving

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Paul Verlaine as a troubador, by Frédéric Bazille

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De rerum natura, Lucretius

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Virgil. The mosaic, which dates from the 3rd Century A.D., was discovered in the Hadrumetum in Sousse, Tunisia

image credit: Giorces

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Byblis, William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)

image credit: public domain

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Opening page, Metamorphoses, Ovid (1567 edition)

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American poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (1975)

image credit: Nancy Wong

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Rita Dove

image credit: Eduardo Montes-Bradley

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John Keats, by William Hilton

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Bust of Arthur Rimbaud

image credit: Sidsmeets

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Ovid and his muse, by Gustave Moreau

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Bust of Homer, Roman copy of an ancient Greek original

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Una and the lion, from The Faerie Queene by Robert Spencer

image credit: public domain

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Anna Akhmatova

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Gertrude Stein, by Pablo Picasso (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Picture taken in April 2004)

image credit: public domain (in the United States)

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Bust of Sappho (Roman copy of an ancient Greek original)

image credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen

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Marina Tsvetaeva

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Christina Rossetti, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Page from the Mathnavi by Rumi

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A copy of Du Fu's poem "Zui Ge Xing" by Dong Qichang

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Aphra Behn by Peter Lely ca. 1670.jpg

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