Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, “Ba...-Bal-”
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Joanna Baillie
b. 9-11-1762; Scotland
d. 2-23-1851

Joanna Baillie was a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era and was well known during her time. Her poetry ranged from songs and lyrical ballads to dramatic monologues and realistic blank verse poems relating to her youth in the Scottish countryside and her life in London.

Joanna Baillie quotes ~
• “I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!”
• “O! who shall lightly say that fame/ is nothing but an empty name?”
• “The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.”

• Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie

James Baldwin Wall Poster

James Baldwin
b. 8-2-1924; New York City
d. 12-1-1987

James Baldwin, African American author, playwright, poet and civil rights activist, used his art form to explore and deal with the racial and sexual identification issues in 20th century United States.

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“Ignorance allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

Honoré de Balzac
b. 5-20-1799; Tours, France
d. 8-18-1850; Paris (tuberculosis)

Novelist and playwright Balzac produced a body of work known as La Comédie humaine, a collection of interlinked novels and stories about French society between 1815 and 1848. Balzac greatly influenced subsequent authors like Gustave Flaubert and Charles Dickens.

Honoré de Balzac quotes ~
• “An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
• “Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”
• “It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.”

• Short Stories of Honore de Balzac