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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b. 10-21-1772; England
d. 7-25-1834

English poet, critic, and philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, along with his friends, poets William Wordsworth and Robert Southey, were founders of the Romantic Movement in England and called the Lake Poets. Coleridge was also a long time friend of Charles Lamb. Coleridge is best known for his Rime of the Ancient Mariner where an albatross is a major symbol-
He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us, / He made and loveth all,
and Kubla Khan -
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.

• Coleridge's Poetry & Prose, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
b. 1-28-1873; France
d. 8-3-1954

Colette is considered France's greatest woman writer. Her 1944 novel Gigi was made into a Broadway play (starring Audrey Hepburn) and an Academy award winning musical (1958).

Colette quotes ~
• “Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”
• “I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.”
• “Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
• “To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”
• “You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”
• “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”

• The Collected Stories of Colette

Vittoria Colonna
b. April, 1490; Italy
d. 2-25-1574; San Silvestro

• Sonnets for Michelangelo: A Bilingual Edition

Henry Steele Commager
b. 10-25-1902; Pennsylvania
d. 3-3-1998

Henry Steele Commager was a noted educator, historian and author. He was a defender of civil liberties, opposed McCarthyism, and the Vietnam War.

• The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as told by Participants, ed. Henry Steele Commager
• peace posters

Joseph Conrad
née Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
b. 12-3-1857; Poland
d. 8-3-1924; England

Joseph Conrad is considered as one of the greatest novelists in English though English was not his first language. He was orphaned by age eleven and had chosen the life of a seaman by age sixteen. His poor health

• The Portable Conrad, Joseph Conrad
• Joseph Conrad, TIME, 4-7-1923, Print