- 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...
- 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)...
-
print of The
Distrest Poet. In
November 1740,
Hogarth advertised his
intention to
issue a three-image set: The Provok'd Musician, The
Distrest Poet, and...
-
Scholars at a
Lecture (1736), The
Company of
Undertakers (1736), The
Distrest Poet (1736), The Four
Times of the Day (1738), and
Strolling Actresses...
- edited, "improved", and
released under the name
Double Falshood, or the
Distrest Lovers.
Double Falshood has the plot of the "Cardenio"
episode in Don Quixote...
- In The
Distrest Poet,
William Hogarth's
portrait of a Grub
Street poet
starving to death,
there is on the wall
behind him a
placard entitled "A view of...
- A "hack" poet
desperate for money, from
William Hogarth's 1741
print The
Distrest Poet....
- in 1728
Lewis Theobald published a play
called Double Falshood; or, The
Distrest Lovers,
which he
claimed was
adapted from Shakespeare's Cardenio. Theobald...
