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Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
A. R. Ammons

Antonin Artaud

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Ingeborg Bachmann

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Frank Bidart

© Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
R. P. Blackmur

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Anne Bradstreet

Illustration from An Account of Anne Bradstreet The Puritan Poetess and Kindred Topics by Col. Luther Caldwell, 1898
Lucie Brock-Broido

2003 Marc Alcarez
Charles Brockden Brown

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George Gordon Byron

Jim Carroll

Anne Carson

Peter Smith
C. P. Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Paul Celan

Geoffrey Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Dan Chiasson

Lucille Clifton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hart Crane

Robert Creeley

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
Carl Dennis

Columbia University
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
John Donne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
MARK DOTY

Frederick Douglass

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alan Dugan

Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
T.S. Eliot

Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Flaubert; Edited with a substantially new translation by De Man Gustave, Paul

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJack Gilbert

Julio Granda
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Louise Gluck

Jorie Graham

Thomas Gray

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Thom Gunn

Marilyn Hacker

Kimiko Hahn

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Alexander Hamilton

Robert Hass

Seamus Heaney

Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Edward Hirsch

Friedrich Holderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
John Hollander

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Harriet Jacobs

wikipedia
Randall Jarrell

Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Rodney Jones

Tom Marcello, 1977
Donald Justice

Photo © 2004 Nathaniel Justice
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Wayne Koestenbaum

Philip Larkin

Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Philip Levine

Frances Levine
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Federico Garcia Lorca

Robert Lowell

Cynthia Macdonald

Stéphane Mallarmé

Wikipédia France
Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Cotton Mather

from Wikipedia
Glyn Maxwell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Shara McCallum

Steven Shwartzer
J.D. Mcclatchy

James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Edmund Sears Morgan

Columbia University
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Susanna Rowson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery
(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Tomaz Salamun

M. Biedrzycki
Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Various Authors

John Williams

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