Author, Poet & Novelist Posters & Prints: “Lev...-Lew...-”
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Denise Levertov
b. 10-24-1923; Ilford, England
d. 12-20-1997; Seattle, Washington

Poet Denise Levertov, who served as a nurse during the London Blitz, married an American, and became a naturalized citizen in 1955, had her first poem published at age 17.

Levertov was the poetry editor for The Nation, a member of the War Resisters League in response to the Vietnam War, and was professor at several universities.

Denise Levertov quotes ~
• “One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.”
• “The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion . . . elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”
• “Images / split the truth / in fractions.”

C.S. Lewis
b. 11-29-1898; Belfast, Northern Ireland
d. 11-22-1963

Novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis is best remembered today for his fiction work The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.

He was also friends with J. R. R. Tolkien.

C. S. Lewis quotes ~
• “An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”
• “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
• “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
• “Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”

• The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics

Sinclair Lewis
b. 2-7-1885; Sauk Center, MN
d. 1-10-1951; Rome (alcoholism)

Novelist, short-story writer, and playwright Sinclair Lewis was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930), “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.” Sinclair Lewis' works are “insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as their strong characterizations of modern working women”.

Sinclair Lewis was married to journalist Dorothy Thompson from 1928-1940/42.

Sinclair Lewis quotes ~
• “When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
• “Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”
• “The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.”

• Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt
• Literary Techniques Posters - Metaphor