Satirical poet posters & prints

Dr Samuel Johnson School English

Starving poet and publisher Thomas Rowlandson

Dr. Samuel Johnson Auguste Christian Fleischmann

Samuel Butler, 17th century English poet and satirist Anonymous

The Distressed Poet William Hogarth

Sir William Watson (1858-1935), English poet Max Beerbohm

The Distressed Poet, 1740 William Hogarth

The Distrest Poet, December 15, 1740 William Hogarth

Westminster Hall, the first day of term, a satirical poem C Mosely

Paul Verlaine Max Beerbohm

Broad Bottoms, 1745 English School

Print satirising Franz Anton Mesmer, 1784 Unknown

Satire on Vestris Paul Sandby

Samuel Butler Gerard Soest

I say the critic must keep out of the region of immediate practice Coide

English Poet Coventry Patmore Anonymous

Alexander Pope, English poet and satirist Anonymous

Matthew Arnold, English poet and cultural critic London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co

John Keats, English poet, and his Ode to a Nightingale Anonymous

Dmitry Dmitryevich Minaev, Russian poet, 1860s Anonymous

Le Journal Pour Rire, Journal d'Iimages, Journal Comique, Critique, Satirique e…, August 23, 1850 Unknown

Oscar Wilde, the Irish dramatist, writer and poet. A caricature by Max Beerbohm showing his extravagent haircut, style of dress... Anonymous

Ridiculous Taste, or The Ladies Absurdity, c.1776 Matthew or Matthias Darly

Down with the damned parasites! Cover of the Lapot Satirical Journal, 1924 Anonymous

John Ruskin, English critic, poet and artist Barraud

A Satire on the Altar-piece by Kent in St Clement Danes Church, Westminster William Hogarth

Geoffrey Chaucer, English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, and diplomat George Frampton

John Ruskin, English artist, poet and critic Emil Otto Hoppe

Sheet of Satirical Studies, c. 1650s Salvator Rosa

Robert Burns, Having set his hand to the plough, looks back at Highland Mary Max Beerbohm

Portrait of Charles Churchill: English poet and satirist, 1763-1764 J.S.C. Schaak

Satire on the trial of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt Cornelis Saftleven

Illustration to the comedy Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboyedov, 1913 Anonymous

James Russell Lowell, Humorous Poet Rischgitz Collection

Poets' Pub (Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, Sidney Goodsir Smith, Edwin Morgan, Robert... Alexander Sandy Moffat

John Dryden, English poet, literary critic, and playwright Anonymous