The Distrest Poet is an oil painting produced sometime around 1736 by the British artist William Hogarth. Reproduced as an etching and engraving, it was...

Gaming House The Prison The Madhouse Southwark Fair (1733)—issued with A Rake's Progress [131] The Edwards Family (1733–34) The Distrest Poet (c.1733-36)...

– 15 February 1709) was an 18th-century English poet. Philips was born at Bampton, Oxfordshire, the son of Rev. Stephen Philips, later archdeacon of...

He included the dog in several works, including his 1745 self-portrait Painter and his Pug, held by the Tate Gallery. In the words of the Tate's display...

distraction by the cacophony outside his window. It was issued as companion piece to the third state of his print of The Distrest Poet. In November 1740...

were immortalised by William Hogarth in his 1736 illustration The Distrest Poet. The street name became a synonym for a hack writer; in a literary context...

around the time as Hogarth was working on his painting Four Times of the Day, and engravings such as The Distrest Poet. The engravings were based on the second...

British literary period known as the 'Augustan era,' poets were more conversant with each other's writings than were the contemporary novelists (see Augustan...

solitary that the poet can speak of a truth that is wholly individually realized. After Gray, a group often referred to as the Churchyard Poets began imitating...

(1733), The Sleeping Congregation (1736), Before and After (1736), Scholars at a Lecture (1736), The Company of Undertakers (1736), The Distrest Poet (1736)...