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English Literature in Illustrations

Middle Ages Canterbury pilgrim badge

Martyrdom of Thomas Becket. Middle Ages

Woodcut of the Knight from The Canterbury Tales. c Middle Ages

16th Century "Temptation of St. Anthony" from Jacques Callot's Miroir De Son Temps.

Edward VI and the Pope: An Allegory of the Reformation (circa 1568–71) 16th Century

Mary, Queen of Scots, the object of England's "Rough Wooing." 16th Century

Early 17th Century Creation of Adam. Michelangelo (1475–1564)

King's and Queen's costumes. Inigo Jones. Early 17th Century

Sketches of Irish costumes by Lucas de Heere Early 17th Century

Restoration and the 18th Century London ladies shopping for fabric

Examining a slave Restoration and the 18th Century

A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp Is Put in Place of the Sun (1766). Joseph Wright Restoration and the 18th Century

Romantic Period From p. 4 of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

Percy Bysshe Shelley (ca. 1829) Romantic Period

Illustration from Lalla Rookh, Romantic Period

Victorian Age Hard Times (1885). Hubert von Herkomer.

The first women students to be admitted to the University of Cambridge, photographed at Hitchin, 1869 Victorian Age

Queen Victoria and her servant Abdul Karim, Victorian Age

20th Century Trains piled with refugees in Amritsar, India (1947)

Smoke billows over a landscape under fire from a United States Air Force B-25 bomber (ca. 1940). 20th Century

William Butler Yeats (ca. 1930). Ireland 20th Century