- 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)...
-
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);...
- 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...
- A "hack" poet
desperate for money, from
William Hogarth's 1741
print The
Distrest Poet....
- 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...
- of
Undertakers (1736)
Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (1738) The
Distrest Poet (1741) The
Enraged Musician (1741)
Characters and
Caricaturas (1743)...
- 1711,
Arabella – The Wife's
Relief by
Charles Johnson 1712,
Andromache –
Distrest Mother by
Ambrose Philips. 1713,
Marcia - Cato by
Joseph Addison. 1714...
- today, You'd
rumple all my
muslin and
uncurl my hair, And
leave me all
distrest to be seen at Horn Fair." "O
fairest of damsels, how can you say No? With...
