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Poets with tag Satire:

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.

Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression, including literature, plays, commentary, television shows, and media such as lyrics.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Horace	-65-	ROM	Satire	1	321
John Donne	1572-1631	ENG	Christian, Didactism, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Fantasy, Metaphysical poets, Philosophy, Renaissance, Satire, Sonnet	172	27
John Dryden	1631-1700	ENG	Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Laureate, Satire	104	285
Jonathan Swift	1667-1745	IRL	Children, Didactism, Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Satire	104	132
Alexander Pope	1688-1744	ENG	Classicism, Deism, Didactism, Enlightenment, Freemasons, Satire	82	48
Samuel Johnson	1709-1784	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Enlightenment, Satire	46	166
Charles Dickens	1812-1870	ENG	Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Victorian	10	112
Mark Twain	1835-1910	USA	Children, Deism, Didactism, Humour, Realism, Satire, Vernacular, Victorian	7	212
Ambrose Bierce	1842-1914	USA	Agnosticism, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Speculative	44	124
Dorothy Parker	1893-1967	USA	Modernism, Sentimentalism, Satire	192	67
Tristan Tzara	1896-1963	ROU/FRA	Dada, Free verse, Nihilism, Satire, Surrealism	6	308

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