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

Louis Bromfield
b. 12-27-1896; Mansfield, Ohio
d. 3-18-1956

Louis Bromfield, who was awarded a Pulitizer Prize for his novel Early Autumn (1927), is nearly forgotten five decades after his death. Bromfield was also an agrarian reformer who set up an experimental farm and retreat, Malabar, in rural Ohio where friends such as Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, visited.

Charlotte Bronte
b. 4-21-1816; England
d. 3-31-1855

Emily Bronte
b. 7-30-1818; England
d. 12-19-1848

Rupert Brooke
b. 8-3-1887; Rugby, Warwickshire, England
d. 4-23-1915; Aegean Sea, off the island of Skyros (sepsis)

Poet Rupert Brooke is best known for his idealistic war poems. He died from an infected mosquito bite on his way to Gallipoli in the First World War.

IF I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. - first lines of The Soldier

• “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”

Gwendolyn Brooks
b. 6-7-1917; Topeka, KS
d. 12-3-2000; Chicago

Gwendolyn Brooks, poet and teacher, was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes ~
• “I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”
• “Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.”
• “Writing is a delicious agony.”
• “Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.”
• “Poetry is life distilled.”
• “Each body has its art...”
• “One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”

• Selected Poems, Gwendolyn Brooks

Charles Brockden Brown Giclee Print

Charles Brockden Brown
b. 1-17-1771; Pennsylvania
d. 2-22-1810; Philadelphia (tuberculosis)

Novelist and historian Charles Brockden Brown is regarded as the most accomplished “early American novelist” before James Fenimore Cooper.

• Charles Brockden Brown : Three Gothic Novels : Wieland / Arthur Mervyn / Edgar Huntly (Library of America)

Margaret Wise Brown (no commerically avaiable poster)

Margaret Wise Brown
b. 5-23-1910; Brooklyn, NY
d. 11-13-1952; Nice, France

Margaret Wise Brown, best known for Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny, also wrote The Little Island, the 1947 Caldecott Medal winner that was published under a pen name of Golden MacDonald. FYI - Brown also taught at the Bank Street Experimental School in New York City.

William Wells Brown: A Reader (no commerically avaiable poster)

William Wells Brown
b. 11-6-1816; Lexington, KY
d. 11-6-1884; Chelsea, MA

Escaped slave William Wells Brown rose to prominence as an abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Brown, a pioneer in several literary genres that includied travel writing, fiction, and drama. His first novel was Clotel, or The President's Daughter. He was an almost exact contemporary of Frederick Douglass, with whom he feuded publicly.

William Wells Brown quotes ~
• “The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.”
• “The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.”
• “People don't follow titles, they follow courage.”
• “All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.”

Sir Thomas Browne
b. 10-19-1605; London, England
d. 10-19-1682; Norwich

Thomas Browne, who had a deep curiosity of the natural world, authored works in medicine, religion, and science. Herman Melville called Browne a “cracked archangel”, both Edgar Allan Poe and R. D. Laing use quotes from Browne in their work, and Jorge Luis Borges described Browne as “the best prose writer in the English language”.

Thomas Browne quotes ~
• “No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.”
• “When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”
• “I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.”
• “Art is the perfection of nature.”
• “Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.”
• “There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.”
• “But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his own executioner.”
• “Be charitable before Wealth makes thee covetous.”
• “He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.”

• The Major Works: Religio Medici, Hydrotophia, The Garden of Cyprus, A Letter to a Friend, and Christian Morals

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b. 3-6-1806; Kelloe, Durham, England
d. 6-29-1861; Florence, Italy - tuberculosis

Victorian era poet Elizabeth Barret Browning enjoyed success in both England and the United States during her lifetime, both before and after her courtship and marriage to Robert Browning.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes ~
• “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of Being and ideal Grace ...” ~ Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
• “Unless you can love, as the angels may, / With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; / Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, / Through behoving and unbehoving; / Unless you can die when the dream is past —” ~ Oh, never call it loving!
• “Therefore to this dog will I, / Tenderly not scornfully, / Render praise and favor: / With my hand upon his head, / Is my benediction said / Therefore and for ever.” ~ To Flush, My Dog, st. 14 (1844)

• Women's Studies Reading Room, Univ of Maryland
• Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

FYI - Elizabeth Barrett Browning's father was the brother of Sarah Barret Moulton, better known as “Pinkie”.

Robert Browning
b. 5-7-1812; London, England
d. 12-12-1889; Venice, Italy

Robert Browning's dramatic verse and monologues made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

Robert Browning quotes ~
• “A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
• “Autumn wins you best by this its mute / Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
• “God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.”
• “Oh, to be in England / Now that April's there.”

• Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Onomatopoeia - Literary Terms posters