Author, Poet & Novelist Posters & Prints: “Lea...-Lem...-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Edward Lear, Giclee Print

The Owl and The Pussycat, Giclee Print

Edward Lear
b. 5-12-1812; London, England
d. 1-29-1888; Sanremo, Italy (heart disease)

Edward Lear is known today for his poetic and prose literary nonsense, especially limericks. Perhaps his best remembered piece is The Owl and the Pussycat.

Lear was also an accomplished artist, not only illustrating his work but also deplicting birds and his trips around the Mediterranean, Greece, Egypt, India and Ceylon. He was once called to court to give Queen Victoria drawing lessons.

Edward Lear quotes ~
• “The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat.”
• “They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.”

• The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense
• Limerick, Poetry Forms poster

Thomas Learmount - Thomas the Rhymer
b. c. 1220; Erceldoune (Earlston), Scotland
d. c. 1298

Scottish laird Thomas Learmont is reputed to be the author of many prophetic verses such as Tam Lin, and may also be the protagonist of the ballad “Thomas the Rhymer”. It is said his powers were such that he rivaled Merlin.

• Thomas the Rhymer

Harper Lee
b. 4-28-1926; Alabama

In late 1956 friends of Harper Lee gave her a year's worth of wages for “one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.”

The result was the Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ that was voted the “Best Novel of the Century” in a 1999 poll by the Library Journal.

Harper Lee quotes ~
• “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
• “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
• “Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
• “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”

Ursula K. Le Guin
b. 10-21-1929; Berkeley, CA

Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories in the genres of fantasy and science fiction.

Ursula K. Le Guin quotes ~
• “I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”
• “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
• “The creative adult is the child who has survived.”
• “To oppose something is to maintain it.”
• “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
• “To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”