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The Poets' Corner

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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.

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.

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.

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