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The Poets' Corner

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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.

A collection of Beerbohm's caricatures depicting notable poets of the past, including Byron, Coleridge, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Wordsworth, Yeats, Tennyson, Browning, Dante, Burns, Matthew Arnold.

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.

List of Caricatures

References