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 published in 1741 from a third state plate produced in 1740. The scene was probably inspired by Alexander Pope’s satirical poem The Dunciad.
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