Crossword-Solution: LAMPOONERS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

But when Tragedy and Comedy came to light, the two classes of poets still followed their natural bent: the lampooners became writers of Comedy, and the Epic poets were succeeded by Tragedians, since the drama was a larger and higher form of art.

But how few lampooners are there now living who are capable of this duty! When they come in my way, it is impossible sometimes to avoid reading them.

The most interesting of the critiques (unfortunately too long to be reprinted here) appeared in _Blackwood's Magazine_, XLI (311-321), of September, 1855,--a forcible, well-written article, which, incidentally, shows how much the magazine had improved in respectability since the days of the lampooners of Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

But Dryden spent the best parts of his life as a panderer to the vices of the town, and was an idol chiefly, in Wills's Coffee House, of lampooners, and idlers, and scandal-mongers.

The persecuted man returned to England in 1819, bringing with him, much to the amusement of the Tory lampooners, the bones of that foul man, Tom Paine, the infidel, whom (in 1796) this changeful politician had branded as "base, malignant, treacherous, unnatural, and blasphemous." During the Queen Caroline trial Cobbett worked heart and soul for that questionable martyr.