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Byron, George Gordon
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Sterne, Laurence
Marlowe, Christopher
Swift, Jonathan
Melville, Herman
Thompson, James
Lem, Stanislaw
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Calvino, Italo
Yeats, William Butler
Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius
Laforgue, Jules
Rumi, Jajal al-Din
Blake, William
Laforge, Jules
Ovid
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre
Plath, Sylvia
Donne, John
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Fielding, Henry
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
MacDiarmid, Hugh
Shonagon, Sei
Hardy, Thomas
De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
Milton, John
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Alighieri, Dante
Orwell, George
Farid al-Din Attar
Taylor Coleridge, Samuel
Sassoon, Siegfried
Shakespeare, William
Caroll, Lewis
Bernard Shaw, George
Congreve, William
Garcia-Bodaño, Salvador
Shaw, George Bernard
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the name that was a battle cry
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
I’ve only the friendship of hotel rooms
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
as lovers do
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
Title Page: Samson Agonistes, a Dramatic Poem. The Author, John Milton
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
Le Coucher du Soleil Romantique – Baudelaire
Michael Rothenstein (1908 - 1993)
“The Merchant of Venice”: The quality of mercy…
John Joo For Lee (28/05/1929 - 2017)
Le Serpent [The Snake]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Peregrinei a Ti…
Alfonso Costa (1943 - )
Salvador Garcia-Bodaño
“The Merchant of Venice”: The quality of mercy…
John Joo For Lee (28/05/1929 - 2017)
the highest vision
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
Orphée 1 [Orpheus]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Plate 7
Chris Orr (1943 - )
The Play Scene from ‘Hamlet’
Daniel, (after) Maclise
Perdix, the Nephew of Dædalus, Transformed into a Partridge
Charles Monnet (1732 - 1808)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
Barbara Brownlee (1940 - )
Ophelia
Alistair Grant (1925 - 1997)
Orphée 3 [Orpheus]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
O Sweeter Than the Marriage Feast
David Jones (1895 - 1974)
Her handkerchief swept me along the Rhine
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
In Full Rig – Delila
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
The God of Israel
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
Sei Shonagon
Eileen Lawrence (1946 - )
Vilancico…
Alfonso Costa (1943 - )
Salvador Garcia-Bodaño
The Crazed Moon – W B Yeats
Michael Rothenstein (1908 - 1993)
the day before the twelfth
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
of william johnstone’s art
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
a point in time
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Bottom and the Fairies
Anthony Gross (1905 - 1984)
Cadmus and Hermione Metamorphosed into Serpents
Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen (1720 - 1778)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
Fortune raises and casts down
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
The roof of the seventh sky is certainly high, yet even this roof does not reach where reaches the ladder of round-dance (Jajal al-din Rumi)
Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 - )
A Cool and Crystalline Spring
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
The Transformation of Picus into a Woodpecker
Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen (1720 - 1778)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
Maria from Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’
Thomas Uwins (1782 - 1857)
The boastful Warrior
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
The Break Up
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
Reproduction restricted: copyright holder unknown
“Macbeth”: Hail, King of Scotland
Edward Hoskins (1939 - )
An Adventure with Some Windmills
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
and to show you I’m not proud, you may shake hands with me!
Peter Blake (1932 - )
An Orphans Curse Would Drag to Hell
David Jones (1895 - 1974)
Procris Killed by an Arrow, which Cephalus darted through the Thicket
Charles Monnet (1732 - 1808)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
The Harbour
David Jones (1895 - 1974)
Angelica Garnett (née Bell) (b.1918), as Mistress Millament in “The Way of the World”
Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961)
Thisbe takes the Sword already Reeking with the Blood of Pyramus, plunges it into her own Breast
Charles Monnet (1732 - 1808)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
ode to the north wind
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
of william johnstone’s exhibition
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
Ophelia
Alistair Grant (1925 - 1997)
In Mist, or Cloud, on Mast or Shroud
David Jones (1895 - 1974)
Plate 4
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Le Poulpe [The Octopus]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
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