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So who were these people who wrote the words archived at Poets' Corner? What were they like? This page links to images of many of the poets - paintings, sketches, photographs - and the stylized digital artwork I have created for the collection.

Rupert Brooke

I think the "picture is worth a thousand words" concept applies more to prose than to poetry (good poetry, "the best words in the best order", says much with litttle), but pictures still say a great deal. While some of these images are heavily posed publicity photos or formal portraits, others are quite candid, and offer an insight as the character of the poet or at least how they were viewed in their time.

For example, every picture I have ever seen of Poe appears a little bit skewed in an appropriately unsettling way. One painting of Jonson looks as if all it would take is another beer to get him to pen another song. Pound's stare seems almost as pointed as his satire, though not as pointed as Dame Edith's features. Thanks to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an artist as well as a poet, we have portraits of his sister Christina as well as Swinburn and his own self-portraits. Early portraits of Wordsworth or Millay or Tennyson look almost unrelated to their portraits in later life, and some, such as Rupert Brooke, lived so briefly that their images have an almost otherworldly quality.

                --Steve

Guide to Sources:

  • (BL) - the British Library
  • (NPG) - the National Portrait Gallery in London - an awesome resource
  • (SPG) - the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington
  • (SI) - The Smithsonion Institution
  • (WIKI) - Wikimedia Commons
  • (ZON) - Amazon
  • (WUSTL) - Washington University at Saint Louis
  • (BUR) - WBUR, Boston
  • (FM) - Falmouth Museum, Cape Cod
  • (UOA) - Atlanta University
  • (NYT) - New York Times Archives
  • (OHS) - Ohio Historical Society
  • (NYPL) - New York Public Library
  • (YUL) - Yale University Library
  • (NPR) - National Public Radio
  • (TNY) - The New Yorker Archives
  • (NEH) - National Endowment for the Humanities
  • (DPL) - Denver Public Library
  • (ES) - Evening Standard (UK)
  • (UMA) - University of Massachusettes Amherst Library
  • (UUC) - Unitarian Universalist Church
  • (UCA) - University of California Library
  • (VHS) - Vinalhaven Historical Society
  • (SU) - Stanford University
  • (MWC) - Museum of Western Colorado

A gradual update is in process. Images with source attribution are more recent additions and are better quality.

Current status: A through J and U through Y have been processed. --Steve

    - A -

  1. John Quincy Adams (WIKI) - painting
  2. Sarah Flower Adams (NPG) - pencil
  3. Joseph Addison (WIKI) - painting
  4. A. E. (George William Russell) (ZON) - painting
  5. Conrad Aiken (WIKI) - photograph
  6. Louisa May Alcott (WIKI) - photograph
  7. Louisa May Alcott - digital painting by SLS
  8. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (WIKI) - photograph
  9. Washington Allston (WIKI) - painting
  10. Matthew Arnold (NPG) - photo
  11. Matthew Arnold - digital painting by SLS
  12. W. H. Auden (NPG) - photo


  13. - B -

  14. Katherine Lee Bates (FM) - Photograph
  15. Aphra Behn (NPG) - engraving
  16. Hillaire Belloc (WIKI) - photograph
  17. Hillaire Belloc (WIKI) - photograph
  18. Ambrose Bierce (WIKI) - photograph
  19. Ambrose Bierce (WIKI) - pencil drawing
  20. Laurence Binyon (NPG) - pencil
  21. Elizabeth Bishop (BUR) - photograph
  22. William Blake (NPG) - painting
  23. William Blake (NPG) - etching
  24. Louise Bogan (WUSTL)- photograph
  25. Robert Bridges (NPG) - photograph
  26. Robert Bridges - digital painting by sls
  27. Anne Bronte (WIKI) - painting
  28. Charlotte Bronte (NPG) - chalk drawing
  29. Rupert Brooke (NPG) - photograph
  30. Rupert Brooke (NPG) - photograph
  31. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (NPG) - painting
  32. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (NPG) - chalk drawing
  33. Robert Browning (NPG) - painting
  34. William Cullen Bryant (WUSTL) - engraving
  35. Robert Burns (NPG) - engraving
  36. Lord Byron, George Gordon (NPG) - painting
  37. Lord Byron, George Gordon (NPG) - engraving


  38. - C -

  39. Bliss Carman (WIKI) - photograph
  40. Lewis Carroll (WIKI) - photograph
  41. Willa Cather - digital painting by SLS
  42. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (NPG) - painting
  43. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (NPG)
  44. William Cowper (NPG) - pastel drawing
  45. Joseph Seamon Cotter (UOA) - photograph
  46. Hart Crane (SI) - photograph
  47. Stephen Crane (NYT) - photograph
  48. e e cummings (WIKI) - photograph


  49. - D -

  50. Richard Henry Dana (WIKI) - photograph
  51. Richard Henry Dana (WIKI) - drawing
  52. W. H. (William Henry) Davies (NPG) - photograph
  53. Walter De la Mare (NPG) - photograph
  54. Margaret Deland (WIKI) - photograph
  55. Margaret Deland (WIKI) - engraving
  56. Charles Dibdin (NPG) - painting
  57. Emily Dickinson (WIKI)- digital painting by SLS
  58. John Donne (WIKI) - painting
  59. Ernest Dowson (WIKI) - photograph
  60. William Drummond (WIKI) - painting
  61. John Dryden (WIKI) - painting
  62. Paul Laurence Dunbar (OHS)- photograph
  63. Paul Laurence Dunbar (OHS)- photograph
  64. Paul Laurence Dunbar (OHS)- digital painting by SLS


  65. - E -

  66. Max Eastman (WIKI) - photograph
  67. George Eliot (WIKI) - pastel drawing
  68. George Eliot (WIKI) - pastel drawing
  69. George Eliot (WIKI) - photograph
  70. T. S. Eliot (TNY) - photograph
  71. Ralph Waldo Emerson (SI) - photograph


  72. - F -

  73. Eugene Field (DPL) - photograph
  74. Edward Fitzgerald (WIKI)- digital painting by SLS
  75. Nora May French (WIKI) - photograph
  76. Robert Frost (NEH) - photograph


  77. - G -

  78. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (NPG) - photograph
  79. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (NPG) - photograph
  80. Oliver Goldsmith (WIKI) - painting
  81. Robert Graves (ES) - photograph
  82. Thomas Gray (NPG) - painting
  83. Edgar Guest (WUSTL) - photograph
  84. Louise Imogen Guiney (WIKI) - photograph
  85. Louise Imogen Guiney (WIKI) - photograph
  86. Arthur Guiterman (UMA) - photograph


  87. - H -

  88. Thomas Hardy (BL) - photograph
  89. Frances E. W. Harper (UUC) - photograph
  90. Francesw E. W. Harper (UCA) - engraving
  91. Bret Harte (WIKI)- digital painting by SLS
  92. Paul Hamilton Hayne (WIKI) - photograph
  93. Oliver Wendell Holmes (WIKI) - photograph
  94. Gerard Manley Hopkins (NPG)- digital painting by SLS
  95. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (WIKI) - painting
  96. Thomas Hood (WIKI) - painting
  97. A. E. Housman (NPG) - photograph
  98. Langston Hughes (SI) - photograph


  99. - I -

  100. Jean Ingelow (WIKI) - photograph
  101. Jean Ingelow (WIKI) - photograph


  102. - J -

  103. Helen Hunt Jackson (MWC) - photograph
  104. Robinson Jeffers (SU) - photograph
  105. Emily Pauline Johnson (WIKI) - photograph
  106. Ben Jonson (NPG) - painting
  107. James Joyce (NPG) - photograph


  108. - K -

  109. John Keats - painting
  110. Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling

    - L -

  111. D. H. Lawrence
  112. C. Day Lewis
  113. Vachel Lindsay
  114. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Longfellow's House, in Cambridge, MA
  115. Amy Lowell

    - M -

  116. Archibald MacLeish
  117. Louis MacNeice
  118. John Manifold
  119. John Masefield
  120. Edgar Lee Masters
  121. Herman Melville
  122. Edna St. Vincent Millay - very young Edna St. Vincent Millay
  123. John Milton - painting
    John Milton - engraving
  124. Marianne Moore
  125. Thomas Moore - painting
  126. Edwin Muir

    - N -

  127. Ogden Nash (Life) - digital painting by SLS


  128. - O -

  129. Wilfred Owen

    - P -

  130. Edgar Allen Poe - who always looks a bit skewed somehow...
    Edgar Allen Poe - engraving
  131. Alexander Pope - painting
  132. Ezra Pound
    Ezra Pound
    Ezra Pound - painting

    - Q -



    - R -

  133. John Crow Ransom
  134. Edwin Arlington Robinson
    Edwin Arlington Robinson
  135. W. R. Rodgers
  136. Christina Rossetti - portrait by her brother
    Christina Rossetti - portrait by her brother
    Christina Rossetti - portrait by her brother
    Christina Rossetti - portrait by her brother
  137. Dante Gabriel Rossetti - self-portrait
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti - self-portrait
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti - self-portrait
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti - photo by Lewis Carroll
  138. Muriel Rukeyser

    - S -

  139. Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg
  140. Sir Walter Scott - engraving
  141. George Santayana
  142. Delmore Schwartz
  143. William Shakespeare - painting
  144. Karl Shapiro
  145. Percy Bysshe Shelley - painting Percy Bysshe Shelley - engraving
  146. Sir Philip Sidney - painting
  147. Edward Rowland Sill
  148. Dame Edith Sitwell
    Dame Edith Sitwell - painting
  149. Stephen Spender
  150. Wallace Stevens
  151. Charles Algernon Swinburn
  152. Charles Algernon Swinburn
    Charles Algernon Swinburn

    - T -

  153. Sara Teasdale
    Sara Teasdale
  154. Alfred Tennyson
  155. Alfred Tennyson
    Alfred Tennyson
    Alfred Tennyson
    Alfred Tennyson
  156. Dylan Thomas
  157. Dunstan Thompson
  158. Henry David Thoreau

    - U -

  159. Jean Starr Untermeyer (YUL)- photograph
  160. Louis Untermeyer (WIKI)- photograph


  161. - V -

  162. Henry Van Dyke (WIKI)- photograph
  163. Edward de Vere (WIKI)- painting
  164. Harold Vinal (VHS)- photograph


  165. - W -

  166. Robert Penn Warren (WIKI)- photograph
  167. Walt Whitman (WIKI)- photograph
  168. Walt Whitman (WIKI)- photograph
  169. Walt Whitman (NPR)- engraving
  170. John Greenleaf Whittier (WIKI)- photograph
  171. John Hall Wheelock (WIKI)- photograph
  172. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (WIKI)- photograph
  173. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (WIKI)- photograph
  174. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (WIKI)- photograph
  175. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Maurine) - digital painting by SLS
  176. William Carlos Williams (YUL) - photograph
  177. William Carlos Williams (WIKI) - digital painting by SLS
  178. William Wordsworth (WIKI) - chalk drawing
  179. Elinor Wylie (NYPL)- photograph
  180. Elinor Wylie (WIKI)- photograph
  181. Elinor Wylie (NYPL)- digital painting by SLS


  182. - Y -

  183. William Butler Yeats (NPG) - photograph

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