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- 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...
- Double Falsehood (archaic spelling: Double Falshood) or The Distrest Lovers is a 1727 play by the English writer and playwright Lewis Theobald, although...
- of Undertakers (1736) Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (1738) The Distrest Poet (1741) The Enraged Musician (1741) Characters and Caricaturas (1743)...
- A "hack" poet desperate for money, from William Hogarth's 1741 print The Distrest Poet....
- John Philips (30 December 1676 – 15 February 1709) was an 18th-century English poet. Philips was born at Bampton, Oxfordshire, the son of Rev. Stephen...
- of Undertakers (1736) Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (1738) The Distrest Poet (1741) The Enraged Musician (1741) Characters and Caricaturas (1743)...
- of Undertakers (1736) Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (1738) The Distrest Poet (1741) The Enraged Musician (1741) Characters and Caricaturas (1743)...
- Tales (1722), from the French of F Pétis de la Croix; three plays: The Distrest Mother (1712), an adaptation of Racine's Andromaque; The Briton (1722);...
- Scholars at a Lecture (1736), The Company of Undertakers (1736), The Distrest Poet (1736), The Four Times of the Day (1738), and Strolling Actresses...
- city, 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...