Portal:Poetry/Selected image archive/2006 archive

This is an archive of article summaries that have appeared in the Selected image section of Portal:Poetry in 2006. For past archives, see the complete archive page.

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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.

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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."

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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

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

Vladimir Mayakovsky's Pro eto

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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