Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: D - E - F, pg 3/11
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Dante
b. 6-1-1265; Italy
d. 9-13/14-1321 (malaria)

• The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso, Dante Alighieri
• Divine Comedy illustration

Daniel Defoe
b. c. 1659-61; London
d. 4-24-1731

Daniel Defoe, 17th century author and journalist, was one of the first novelist, someone telling a story a prose narrative instead of the traditional verse. Defoe's novels include Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722). Defoe's genre of being marooned was picked up by Robert Louis Stevenson in Swiss Family Robinson.

• Robinson Crusoe posters

James Dickey
b. 2-2-1923; Georgia
d. 1-19-1997

• more book cover posters
• Deliverance

John Donne
b. 1572; London
d. 3-31-1631
"...No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Meditation XVII

FYI- The nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer reported was inspired to use the name 'Trinity' for the first nuclear explosion test by Donne's Holy Sonnets.

• The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne

John Dos Passos
b. 1-14-1896; Chicago
d. 9-28-1970

• John Dos Passos : U.S.A. : The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b. 5-22-1858; Scotland
d. 7-2-1930

• Sherlock Holmes book cover posters
• Hound of the Baskerville posters
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Theodore Dreiser
b. 7-27-1871; Terre Haute, IN
d. 12-28-1945

Theodore Dreiser quotes:
• “In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.”
• “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
• “Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.”
• “I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.”

• Theodore Dreiser : Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men

Alexandre Dumas père
b. 7-24-1802; France
d. 12-5-1870

• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Black History posters

Alexandre Dumas fils
b. 7-27-1824; France
d. 11-27-1895

• The Lady of the Camellias
• La Traviata, Verdi

T. S. Elliot / TIME Cover: March 06, 1950, TIME Magazine

T. S. Eliot
b. 9-26-1888; St. Louis, MO
d. 1-4-1965

• Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950; T. S. Eliot
• T. S. Eliot quote ecard - "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." (Little Giddings)

Fragment of a Poem by Wolfram of Eschenbach, Published by Fetis, Giclee Print

Wolfram of Eschenbach
b. c 1170; Germany
d. c 1220

• Parzival: With Titurel and the Love Lyrics, Wolfram von Eschenbach
• Richard Wagner Operas

Desiderius Erasmus Giclee Print, (Hans Holbein the Younger)

Desiderius Erasmus
b. 10-27-1466; Rotterdam
d. 7-12-1536; Basel

Desiderius Erasmus was a humanist - a teacher of grammar, rhetoric, moral philosophy, poetry and history as studied via classical authors, and a theologian.

• Desiderius Erasmus (Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers Series)
• The Erasmus Reader

Euripides
b. c. 480-406 BCE Greece

Euripides was the third of the three great Greek tragedians after Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is known primarily focusing on the inner lives of his characters that included strong women, smart slaves, and critizing many heroes of Greek mythology through satire.

• "Where there is no Wine there is no Love." Euripides quote print
• Ten Plays by Euripides

Henry Fielding
b. 4-22-1707; England
d. 10-8-1754; Lisbon

English novelist and dramatist, Henry Fielding, is known for his satire and earthy humour exemplified by his novel The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.

• The Genius of Henry Fielding with Selections from His Works
• 'Tom Jones' movie poster

F. Scott Fitzgerald,
b. 9-24-1896; St. Paul, MN
d. 12-21-1940

• Fitzgerald, 20th Century American Authors series
• The Great Gatsby book cover poster

Camille Flammarion
b. 2-26-1842; France
d. 6-3-1925

• Flammarion Book Cover
• Flammarion Woodcut
• Omega: The Last Days of the World; Flammarion

Gustave Flaubert
b. 12-12-1821; France
d. 5-8-1880

Gustave Flaubert quotes:
• “There is no truth. There is only perception.”
• “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”
• “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

E. M. Forster
b. 1-1-1879; London
d. 6-6-1970

• Great Novels and Short Stories
of E. M. Forster

Anatole France, born François-Anatole Thibault,
b. 4-16-1844; Paris, France
d. 10-12-1924; Tours

Anatole France was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament."

• Great Novels of Anatole France: Penguin Island, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, The Revolt of the Angels

Margaret Fuller
b. 5-23-1810; Cambridge, MA
d. 6-19-1850; ship wreck off Fire Isl., NY

Margaret Fuller was a women's rights activist, journalist, and Transcentalist. She was also an educator, bringing women together for "conversations" meant to compensate for the lack of formal educaton for women. Fuller was the New York Tribunes first woman editor (1844), and also its first woman foreign correspondent. It was on her return to the US that she died in a ship wreck.

Margaret Fuller quotes:
• “Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”
• “Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”
• “Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
• “The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”

• The Portable Margaret Fuller
• Women Who Dared I Composite poster
• Notable & Famous Women posters