Authors Posters & Prints, “Hub...-Hun...-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Elbert Hubbard, Giclee Print

Elbert Hubbard
b. 6-19-1856; Bloomington, IL
d. 5-7-1915; Ireland - aboard the Lusitania

Writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher Elbert Hubbard is best remembered for his essay, A Message to Garcia, and an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement as embodied in the Roycroft community of artist and artisans.

Roycroft Chairs, Masterprint

Elbert Hubbard quotes ~
• “Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
• “Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.”
• “He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”
• “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
• “A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.”
• “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.”
• “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
• “Initiative is doing the right things without being told.”
• “Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”
• “Responsibility is the price of freedom.”
• “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

FYI ~ the illustrator William W. Denslow was the first artist invited to work for Roycroft.

William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson
b. 8-4-1841; Argentina
d. 8-18-1922; London

William Henry Hudson is best remembered as the author of the 1904 Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima. It was made into a movie.

Hudson was also a naturalist and ornithologist who as instrumental in the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s-30s.

William Henry Hudson quotes ~
• “We know that our senses are subject of decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't care.”
• “You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.”
• “I... thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness!”

Stars of the Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes Poster

Langston Hughes
b. 2-1-1902; Joplin, MO
d. 5-22-1967, Harlem, NYC

Langston Hughes was the biggest literary star of the Harlem Renaissance. He produced a truly astonishing amount of writing in his lifetime: sixteen books of poetry, twenty plays, seven collections of short fiction, many magazine and newspaper articles, three autobiographies, and two novels, as well as opera librettos, movie scripts, essays, and children's books.

Langston Hughes quotes ~
• “I will not take “but” for an answer.”
• “It's such a Bore, Being always Poor.”
• “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”
• “We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”

• more Langston Hughes posters

Collected Poem, Ted Hughes (no commercially available image)

Ted Hughes
b. 8-17-1930; Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England
d. 10-28-1998; London

Poet and children's author Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate of England from 1984 until his death.

Hughes is probably best remembered as the husband of Sylvia Plath.

Ted Hughes quotes ~
• “So the self under the eye lies,
Attendant and withdrawn.”
• “What happens in the heart simply happens.”

Thomas Hughes
b. 10-20-1822; Uffington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England
d. 3-22-1896; Brighton, East Sussex

Lawyer and author Thomas Hughes is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)

Thomas Hughes quotes ~
• “Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”
• “He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.”

Victor Hugo
b. 2-26-1802; Besancon, France
d. 5-22-1885; Paris

Romantic author Victor Hugo was a poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and human rights campaigner whose writing was greatly influenced by Chateaubriand, the “Father of French Romanticism”.

Hugo's best-known works in the English speaking world are his novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Actress Juliette Drouet was the lifelong companion of Hugo.

Victor Hugo quotes ~
• “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
• “A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
• “A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.”
• “Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
• “Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
• “Habit is the nursery of errors.”
• “He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.”
• “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”

• The Essential Victor Hugo
• Juliette Drouet poster

FYI ~ Victor Hugo was acquainted with Dr. Gachet who is notable for treating Vincent van Gogh.

Leigh Hunt
b. 10-19-1784; London, England
d. 8-28-1859; Putney

James Henry Leigh Hunt was an essayist, poet and critic associated with Keats, Shelley and Byron. Hunt lived in poverty much of his life until Mary Shelley settled an annuity on him in 1844, as did Lord Russell (the great-grandfather of Bertrand Russell).

Hunt also is recognizable as the model for the character of Henry Skimpole in Charles Dicken's Bleak House. Dicken's apologized to his friend Hunt but the characterization is permanently connected.

Leigh Hunt quotes ~
• “The groundwork of all happiness is health.”
• “The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”
• “There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.”
• “Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.”
• “Stolen kisses are always sweetest.”

• Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings