Aubrey Beardsley was born in Brighton, England in 1872. He
started his career as a poet, but he soon gave it up and became an illustrator
instead. He illustrated Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, Edgar Allan Poe’s short
stories, and Oscar Wilde’s Salome. Aubrey Beardsley got in trouble after
Wilde’s trial and he died in 1898 of tuberculosis.
Works Include : Illustrations for Morte d’Arthur (1892), Salome
(1894) and Rape of the lock (1896)
Best Selling Posters : Isolde, Peacock Skirt, Ali Baba, The
Dancer's Reward, for "Salome"
Quotation by - Aubrey Beardsley
No language is rude
that can boast polite writers.
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and
unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness
rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the
preterit?