1904 book
The Poets' Corner is a book of twenty caricatures by English caricaturist , essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm . It was published in 1904 by William Heinemann , and was Beerbohm's second book of caricatures, the first being Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen (1896).
Named after Poets' Corner , the name traditionally given to a section of the south transept of Westminster Abbey due to the number of poets, playwrights, and writers now buried and commemorated there, the book is a collection of Max Beerbohm 's caricatures depicting notable poets from the past up to 1904, including Lord Byron , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , William Shakespeare , Walt Whitman , William Wordsworth , W. B. Yeats , Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Dante , Robert Burns , Matthew Arnold , Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Henrik Ibsen .[ 1]
The Poets' Corner was republished in 1943 as a King Penguin publication with an introduction by John Rothenstein and expanded to twenty-four colour illustrations.
Gallery
'Dante Gabriel Rossetti in His Back-Garden' from The Poets' Corner
'Coleridge, table-talking' from The Poets' Corner
Matthew Arnold from The Poets' Corner
See also
References
^ Beerbohm, Max 'The Poets' Corner' William Heinemann (1904)
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