Thomas Norman Ault (December 17, 1880 – February 6, 1950) was a book illustrator and writer, now best known as a compiler of

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. He wrote children's literature with his wife (He)Lena, who died in 1904. He later was noted as a scholar of English poetry of the seventeenth century, and

Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, ...

Works

*''The Rhyme Book'' (1906) with Lena Ault *''The Podgy Book of Tales'' with Lena Ault *''Dreamland Shores'' (1920) *''Life In Ancient Britain'' 1920 *''The Poet's Life Of Christ'' (1923) editor *''Elizabethan Lyrics: From The Original Texts'' (1925) anthology *''Seventeenth Century Lyrics: From The Original Texts'' (1928) anthology *''Pope's Own Miscellany'' (

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, 1935) *''The Prose Works of Alexander Pope: The Earlier Works, 1711-1720'' (1936) *''A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics'' (1938) anthology *''A New Light on Pope'' (1949) *''Alexander Pope Minor Poems'' (1954) editor, completed by John Butt

Bibliography

* The Imaginative Book Illustration Society a

has a bibliography by Robin Greer in Studies in Illustration no.2 1996

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ault, Thomas Norman 1880 births 1950 deaths British children's writers British illustrators