Portal:Poetry/Selected image archive

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This page is an archive of images featured on the Poetry Portal.

Archives: 2006

June 2006

Title page to a 1620 printing of Doctor Faustus, a play in iambic pentameter, showing Faustus studying and a demon rising through a stage trap door.

July 2006

Gustave Doré illustration of Jean de La Fontaine's The Bear and the Gardener: "In my opinion it's a golden rule/Better be lonely than be with a fool."

August 2006

Cover to Vladimir Mayakovsky's Pro eto by Russian Alexander Rodchenko; the Futurist school included both literary and visual artists.

Image credit: Pre-1973 image from the Soviet Union- public domain

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September 2006

Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by Édouard Manet

Image credit:by Édouard Manet, 1876, Musee d'Orsay

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October 2006

Hayâlî was an Ottoman court poet and official during the 16th Century.
Image credit: Şentürk, Ahmet Atilla. Osmanlı Şiiri Antolojisi.

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November 2006

American poet Walt Whitman in 1884 at the age of 65.

Image credit: Image taken in 1887.

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December 2006

Li Po reciting a poem.
Ink on paper, by Liang K'ai (13th century).

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January 2007

Illustration from Jami's Rose Garden of the Pious, 1553. The image blends Persian poetry and Persian miniature into one, as is the norm for many works of Persian literature.