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“The Tyger,” anastatic print by William Blake

Oil painting by Giacomo Trecourt showing Lord Byron seated on rocky shore near the sea, gazing thoughtfully, with two figures and trees in the background.

Engraving of William Wordsworth with arms crossed, wearing a dark jacket and cravat, looking slightly to his left against a shadowed background.

Sir Walter Scott

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Campagna

Black and white portrait of Novalis, also known as Friedrich von Hardenberg, showing a young man with wavy shoulder-length hair, wearing a cravat and a buttoned coat.

The Brothers Grimm

Portrait of German poet Heinrich Heine, circa 1827, seated with one arm resting on his knee and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt.

Engraving of Jean-Jacques Rousseau seated by a waterfall in Switzerland, wearing period clothing and hat, holding a walking stick, with a dog lying at his feet.

André de Chénier

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein

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