Literary style characterized by a strong expressiveness of words

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Marrons d'Inde.

The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

When all aloud the wind doth blow... : winter and summer alike coughs, congestion and the common cold call for 'Actifed' products.

Two men, possibly students, carrying home a drunken doctor laid out on a door, verse below. Lithograph.

The grave of John Keats in the Protestant cemetery of Rome, Italy. Etching by J.L. Chapman, 1863.

Events around and about !! : February - March 1993 / London Lighthouse.

The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong].

A winged woman  holding a lyre and a book; representing poetry. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.

The temple of nature or, the origin of society. A poem with philosophical notes / By Erasmus Darwin.

Quinti Sereni Samonici De medicina praecepta salvberrima / Textvm recensvit, lectiones varietatem, notas interpretvm selectiores svasqve adiecit Ioannes Christianus Gottlieb Ackermann.

Erasmus Darwin : a life of unequalled achievement / Desmond King-Hele.

Poezie Vysočiny : Výběr básní a prózy o Vysočině / Karel Daněk.

The Purple island and anatomy in early seventeenth-century literature, philosophy, and theology / Peter Mitchell.

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Poetry as Topic

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The temple of nature or, the origin of society. A poem with philosophical notes / By Erasmus Darwin.

Quinti Sereni Samonici De medicina praecepta salvberrima / Textvm recensvit, lectiones varietatem, notas interpretvm selectiores svasqve adiecit Ioannes Christianus Gottlieb Ackermann.

Erasmus Darwin : a life of unequalled achievement / Desmond King-Hele.

Poezie Vysočiny : Výběr básní a prózy o Vysočině / Karel Daněk.

The Purple island and anatomy in early seventeenth-century literature, philosophy, and theology / Peter Mitchell.

Poetry as Topic

Images from the collections

Images about Poetry as Topic

Works from the collections

The temple of nature or, the origin of society. A poem with philosophical notes / By Erasmus Darwin.

Quinti Sereni Samonici De medicina praecepta salvberrima / Textvm recensvit, lectiones varietatem, notas interpretvm selectiores svasqve adiecit Ioannes Christianus Gottlieb Ackermann.

Erasmus Darwin : a life of unequalled achievement / Desmond King-Hele.

Poezie Vysočiny : Výběr básní a prózy o Vysočině / Karel Daněk.

The Purple island and anatomy in early seventeenth-century literature, philosophy, and theology / Peter Mitchell.

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