Portal:Poetry/Selected image archive/2006 archive

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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.

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.
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.


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."
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."


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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