Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints: “Car...-”
for literature & language arts classrooms, homeschoolers, and scholars.

Giosue Carducci
b. 7-27-1835; Tuscany, Italy
d. 2-16-1907; Bologna

Poet and teacher Giosue Carducci was the first Italian to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature (1906) for “not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces.”

• A Selection From the Poems of Giosue Carducci

Thomas Carlyle
b. 12-4-1795; Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
d. 2-5-1881; London

Thomas Carlyle was a highly influential essayist, satirist, philosopher and historian during the Victorian era and on the thinking of the Transcendentalists. His crisis of faith was representative of the new social order being brought about by the Industrial Revolution and scientific inquiry. He was also a mathematics teacher.

Thomas Carlyle quotes ~
• “Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”
• “History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
• “If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.”
• “In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
• “The spiritual is the parent of the practical.”
• “To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”

• A Carlyle Reader
• Julia Cameron

Dale Carnegie
née Carnegey
b. 11-24-1888; Maryville, MO
d. 11-1-1955; New York

Writer and lecturer Dale Carnegie created a course on self-improvemnt, public speaking and interpersonal skills popular with sales people and corporations.

Dale Carnegie quotes ~
• “Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”
• “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
• “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.”
• “If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”

FYI ~ Carnegie used Edward W. Bok as an example in his How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Lewis Carroll
alias Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
b. 1-27-1832; Cheshire, England
d. 1-14-1898

British author, clergyman, mathematician, and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who used the pen name Lewis Carroll, is best known as a children's author of the fanciful Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872). He also published The Hunting of the Snark, (1876) and two volumes Sylvie and Bruno (1889 and 1893) under Lewis Carroll, in addition to mathematical papers as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

Lewis Carroll quotes ~
• “Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
• “If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
• “Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
• “There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.”

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Rachel Carson
b. 5-27-1907; Pennsylvania
d. 4-14-1964

Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring caused an uproar - she had carefully researched and documented the devastation the chemical DDT was creating, and the chemical industry attached her as a fanatic.

Rachel Carson quotes ~
• “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.”
• “Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”
• “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”

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