Authors, Poets & Novelists Posters & Prints, “Q...-”
for literature, language arts and social studies classrooms and home schoolers.

Salvatore Quasimodo
b. 8-20-1901; Sicily
d. 6-14-1968

Salvatore Quasimodo was awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times.”

Salvatore Quasimodo quotes ~
• “As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.”
• “From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.”
• “The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
b. 11-21-1863; England
d. 5-12-1944;

Sir Arthur Quller-Couch, who published under the pen name of Q, is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918), and for his literary criticism.

FYI - Foy Felicia, to whom author Kenneth Grahame inscribed a first edition of his The Wind in the Willows, was Quiller-Couch's daughter; Graham attributed her father as the inspiration for the character Ratty.