title: Norman Ault
text: # Norman Ault
  
  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
  