Norman Ault Explained

Thomas Norman Ault (December 17, 1880 – February 6, 1950)^[1] was a book illustrator and writer, now best known as a compiler of anthologies.

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.

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 (Nonesuch Press, 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 at http://www.bookillustration.org has a bibliography by Robin Greer in Studies in Illustration no.2 1996

Notes and References

1. Web site: Papers of T. Norman Ault. Bodleian Library at Oxford University.