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[[Image:rossetti-max.jpg|thumb|right|'Dante Gabriel Rossetti in His Back-Garden' from ''The Poets' Corner'']]
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'''The Poets' Corner''' was a book of twenty [[caricatures]] by [[English people|English]] [[Caricature|caricaturist]], [[Essay|essayist]] and [[Parody|parodist]] [[Max Beerbohm]]. It was published in 1904 by [[William Heinemann]], and was Beerbohm's second book of caricatures, the first being ''Twenty-five Gentlemen'' (1896).
'''The Poets' Corner''' was a book of twenty [[caricatures]] by [[English people|English]] [[Caricature|caricaturist]], [[Essay|essayist]] and [[Parody|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).


A collection of Beerbohm's caricatures depicting notable poets of the past and present, including [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[Walt Whitman]], [[William Wordsworth]], [[William Butler Yeats|W.B. Yeats]], [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], [[Robert Browning]], [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]], [[Robert Burns]], [[Matthew Arnold]], [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]].<ref>Beerbohm, Max 'The Poets' Corner' William Heinemann (1904)</ref>
A collection of Beerbohm's caricatures depicting notable poets of the past and present, including [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[Walt Whitman]], [[William Wordsworth]], [[William Butler Yeats|W.B. Yeats]], [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], [[Robert Browning]], [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]], [[Robert Burns]], [[Matthew Arnold]], [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]].<ref>Beerbohm, Max 'The Poets' Corner' William Heinemann (1904)</ref>

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'Dante Gabriel Rossetti in His Back-Garden' from The Poets' Corner

The Poets' Corner was 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).

A collection of Beerbohm's caricatures depicting notable poets of the past and present, including Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Dante, Robert Burns, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.[1]

The Poets' Corner was republished in 1943 as a The King Penguin publication with an introduction by John Rothenstein and expanded to twenty-four colour illustrations.

References

  1. ^ Beerbohm, Max 'The Poets' Corner' William Heinemann (1904)