Pictures of Writers

this is my favorite thread ever in the history of forever. please keep going forever. (and can someone please find that picture of isaac babel that is on the cover of my penguin paperback where he looks like a MORE demented uncle fester? please?)

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lacentral.com/autoresgif/kundera2.jpg

There's somethin' kinda cheeky and wise about Milan Kundera's face.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Mishima
http://www.tomita.net/image/mishima.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.djclark.com/godwin/th70.jpg

Ted Hughes: ladies man, or long suffering psycho-magnet?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Twain, doing his Nietzsche impression (see other thread)
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/twnm003.jpg

Walt Whitman, compulsive fingernail biter
http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/Walt_Whitman.jpg

Walker Percy, charmingly laid back
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ek867/walker.percy.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nathanael West, who left too soon
http://www.alohacriticon.com/images/viajeliterariofotos/nathanaelwest.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Had we but world enough, and time"--Andrew Marvell, desperate for it.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/STUmarvellA.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
Thomas Gray
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/g/thomas-gray-200x300.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Keats, looking wistful
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/k/john-keats-190x270.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ezra Pound, young and not a little dashing:

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/images/raitt2.jpg

Ezra Pound, old former Fascist mouthpiece:

http://www.usask.ca/english/page/EP_In_Italy_cover_small.JPG

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Tennyson
http://camelot.celtic-twilight.com/infopedia/t/tennyson.jpg

whose poem Ulysses never fails to move me:
"Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Bruno Schulz
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/litterature-polonaise/medias/schulz.jpg

Mikhail Bulgakhov
http://www.geocities.com/sgb34/mikhailbulgakov.jpg

― the krza (krza), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

HD (née Hilda Doolittle):

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/image1.jpg

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Updike:
http://telosnet.com/dmdodge/veils/images/updike.gif
Given the Simpsons treatment:
http://www.actualidadsimpson.com/famosos/BABF17JohnUpdike.jpg

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Carol Shields

http://lcn.canoe.com/archives/lcn/artsetspectacles/musiquelivres/media/2002/04/20020422-193548-g.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)