Inspired by a poem posters & prints

The poem of the soul: The Ideal Louis Janmot

The Progress of Poesy, design 44 from 'The Poems of Thomas Gray', 1797-98 William Blake

The Progress of Poesy William Blake

Angel and Shepherd Boy, 1911 Jacek Malczewski

Ode to Adversity William Blake

Fitz-James and the dying Blanche of Devan Henry Corbould

Homer Dictating his Poem Pier Francesco Mola

A Book of Poems Claude Raguet Hirst

Pandemonium: The Bridge Over Chaos Joseph Michael Gandy

The Damsel and Orlando, ca. 1793 Benjamin West

Lenore Anonymous

Landscape after a poem by Wang Wei, dated 1323 Tang Di

St. Simeon Stylites William Burges

Illustration for the poem The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Aleksandr Pushkin, 1905 Ivan Bilibin

Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, design 109 from 'The Poems of Thomas Gray', 1797-98 William Blake

The Complaint of the Giant Nimrod William Blake

The Fountain of Bahçesaray, 1849. Karl Briullov

A Long Story, design 22 for 'The Poems of Thomas Gray', 1797-98 William Blake

Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard William Blake

The Parliament of Birds Carl Wilhelm de Hamilton

Pandemonium, 1841 John Martin

The Six Winged Seraph Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel

Death's Door, from The Grave, a Poem by Robert Blair, March 1, 1813 Luigi Schiavonetti

A Shepherd Reading the Epitaph William Blake

The Hermit at His Morning Devotions Anonymous

Stoke Poges Church, Buckinghamshire C J Smith

Ms D-212 Interior of a Madrasa Persian School

Poem by Emperor Sanjo, from the series One Hundred Poems…, 1835-36 Katsushika Hokusai

Illustration to the fairy-tale poem The Humpbacked Horse by P. Yershov Anonymous

Armida Abducting theSleeping Rinaldo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard William Blake

Frontispiece for a book of poems by Francesco Petrarch Italian School

Ode to Adversity, design 37 from 'The Poems of Thomas Gray', 1797-98 William Blake

The poem of the soul: On the Mountain Louis Janmot

Rinaldo and Armida Henri Antoine de Favanne

Ode on the Spring, design 5 for 'The Poems of Thomas Gray', 1797-98 William Blake