Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, “Bas...-Bau-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms and homeschoolers.

Matsuo Basho
b. 1644; Japan
d. 11-28-1694

• “The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”

• Basho: The Complete Haiku

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Giambattista Basile
b. 1566 or 1575; Italy
d. 2-23-1632

Giambattista Basile, poet and courtier, was also a collector of fairy tales.

Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers acknowledged Basile as source material.

• The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

Katharine Lee Bates
b. 8-12-1859; Falmouth, MA
d. 3-28-1929

Katharine Lee Bates, a professor of English literature at Wellesley College, is best remembered as the author of the poem “America, the Beautiful”, which was inspired by the view from the summit of Pikes Peak.

John Barth
b. 5-27-1930; Cambridge, MD

Charles Baudelaire
b. 4-9-1821; Paris, France
d. 8-31-1867; Paris

Baudelaire was an influential French poet and critic, as well as translator of the works of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. (Poe wrote about a raven, Baudelaire wrote about an albatross.)

• Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal Et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book, Charles Baudelaire
• Baudelaire letter to Richard Wagner print
• Baudelaire drawing of Jeanne Duval

L. Frank Baum
b. 5-15-1856; Chittenango, New York
d. 5-6-1919; Hollywood, California (stroke)

Lyman Frank Baum was an author, poet, playwright, actor, and independent filmmaker who is best remembered today as the creator (along with illustrator W.W. Denslow) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Baum was also the son-in-law of women's rights activist Matilda Joslyn Gage.

L. Frank Baum quotes ~
• “The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.”

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