Thomas Norman Ault (December 17, 1880 – February 6, 1950) 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 has a bibliography by Robin Greer in Studies in Illustration no.2 1996 References External links 1880 births 1950 deaths British children's writers British illustrators