English Literature — A Knowledge Graph
Dark mode
Light mode
Reader mode
Explorer
Home
❯
concepts
❯
Satire of Society
Satire of Society
Jul 24, 2026
1 min read
graph/concept
Theme/Concept
— appears in
279
work(s).
Works
concept
Graph View
Backlinks
Artist and Society · Truth · Regency/Georgian England
City · London · Theatrum Mundi
Education · Self-Made Man · Wheel
Essay · Critique of Progress · Common Man
Love's Labour's Lost
Misanthropy
Money and Gold · Poverty · Imprisonment
New England / America · New England
Paradox · Food and Feasting · Aphorism
Ruins / the Abbey · Sic Transit Gloria Mundi · Ubi Sunt
Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Social Novel (Novel of Manners)
Temptation · Good vs Evil · Serpent / Snake
Twelfth Night
Wine and Drink · Ballad / Ballade · Road
World Upside Down · Comedy
179 8 FIRE, FAMINE, AND SLAUGHTER
A Change in the Cabinet
A Child's History of England
A Cooking Egg
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN AUTHOR AND HIS FRIEND
A Fable for Feasters
A LIAR BY PROFESSION
A Moral Alphabet
A Party of Lovers
A Predicament
A Tale of Jerusalem
A TOMBLESS EPITAPH
A Woman of No Importance
Abou ben Adhem
Alarms and Discursions
All I Survey
Alliterativism (1914)
All Things Considered
ALWAYS AUDIBLE
America
American Fundamentalists
American Notes
On American Morals
Americanisation
AN APOLOGY FOR SPENCERS
An Enigma
An Extempore
An Ideal Husband
AN ODE TO THE RAIN
A Ballade Of An Anti-puritan
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
The Aristocrat
ON the DISASTROUS SPREAD of AESTHETICISM in ALL CLASSES
As I Was Saying
THE SONG of the STRANGE ASCETIC
Asparagus
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS
Aunt Helen
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS
The Ball and the Cross
Ballad Of Abbreviations
BalladStBarbara
Ben Nevis - a Dialogue
Beyond the City
Bleak House
Bon-Bon
Broad Minded Bishop
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Bustopher Jones: the Cat About Town
But Soft: We Are Observed!
Caliban's Guide to Letters
Cautionary Tales for Children
Child Psychology and Nonsense
CHOLERA CURED BEFORE-HAND
CHRIST’S HOSPITAL
COCKNEYS and THEIR JOKES
COLOGNE
The Common Man
Coriolan
Cousin Nancy
DEAR BROTHER JEM
Democracy and Industrialism
Charles Dickens (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Diddling
Divorce versus Democracy
The Return of Don Quixote
DRINKING VERSUS THINKING
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Emma
Emmanuel Burden, Merchant
THE CASE for the EPHEMERAL
EPIGRAM ON THE SECRECY OF A CERTAIN LADY
EPITAPH OF THE PRESENT YEAR ON THE MONUMENT OF THOMAS FULLER
EPITAPH ON A MERCENARY MISER
EPITAPH ON MAJOR DIEMAN
Fancies versus Fads
Five-Finger Exercises
Folly’s Song
FOR A HOUSE-DOG’S COLLAR
Four Beasts in One-The Homo-Cameleopard
French And English
FROM AN OLD GERMAN POET
All Is Grist
Come to Think of It
Government and the Rights of Man
The Song Against Grocers
Hard Times
How I Found the Superman
HONOUR
How to Write a Blackwood Article
Humanitarianism
HYMNS — MOON
III The Word of the lord came unto me, saying
Illustrated London News, April 19, 1930
IMITATED FROM ARISTOPHANES
Introduction to Jane Austen's 'Love and Freindship',
Jane Annie, or The Good Conduct Prize
Jane Austen GE
Jealousy
JEUX D’ESPRIT: MY GODMOTHER’S BEARD
Jones
Lady Susan
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lambkin's Remains
Le Directeur
The Ideal of a Leisure State
LINES COMPOSED IN A CONCERT-ROOM
LINES IN A GERMAN STUDENT’S ALBUM
LINES TO A COMIC AUTHOR, ON AN ABUSIVE REVIEW
Lionizing
Little Dorrit
LOGIC and LAWN TENNIS
Tales of the Long Bow
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Loss of Breath
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
L’ENFANT PRODIGUE
Macavity: the Mystery Cat
Magic
The Man Who Was Orthodox
Manalive
Mansfield Park
Martin Chuzzlewit
The Meaning of the Crusade
Mellonta Tauta
The Methuselahite
A Miscellany of Men
MODERN CRITICS
Modern Love
More Beasts for Worse Children
More Peers
Mr. Apollinax
Mr. Clutterbuck's Election
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
Mr. Petre
MUSIC
Mystification
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Never Bet the Devil your Head
New Fiction
The New Omar
Nicholas Nickleby
NINETY-EIGHT
Nocturne
NONSENSE SAPPHICS
Northanger Abbey
OCCASIONED BY THE FORMER
ODE TO TRANQUILLITY
Oliver Twist
On
ON A LATE MARRIAGE BETWEEN AN OLD MAID AND FRENCH PETIT MAÎTRE
ON A READER OF HIS OWN VERSES
ON A REPORT OF A MINISTER’S DEATH
ON A RUINED HOUSE IN A ROMANTIC COUNTRY
ON A SLANDERER
ON A VOLUNTEER SINGER
On Abolishing Sunday
ON AN AMOROUS DOCTOR
ON DEPUTY ——
ON DONNE’S POEM ‘TO A FLEA
On Evil Euphemisms
ON IMITATION
On Lying In Bed
ON MR. ROSS, USUALLY COGNOMINATED NOSY
ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY
On Oxford A Parody
ON PITT AND FOX
ON SIR RUBICUND NASO
On Something
ON THE CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE
ON THE SICKNESS OF A GREAT MINISTER
Our Mutual Friend
P, Q, R
PARLIAMENTARY OSCILLATORS
A DEFENCE of PENNY DREADFULS
PERSPIRATION. A TRAVELLING ECLOGUE
Persuasion
Philosophy of Furniture
Poems
Pongo and the Bull
Portrait of a Lady
Pride and Prejudice
RECANTATION
Reversals
The Song of Right and Wrong
Rotarians - (1927)
RUFA
The Outline of Sanity
The Scandal of Father Brown
Sense and Sensibility
SENTIMENTAL
The Equality of Sexlessness
Sketches by Boz
Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode
Some Words with a Mummy
Songs of Education
Songs of Education125
Sonnet: Before he went to feed with owls and bats
Sonnet on Hearing the Bagpipe and
Sonnet to a Cat
Sonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS
SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS
Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown
Spleen
SPOTS IN THE SUN
The Fallacy of Success
A Ballade of Suicide
TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE
TALLEYRAND, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT PARIS, TO LORD GRENVILLE
The Ad-dressing of Cats
The Adventures of Gerard
THE ALTERNATIVE
The Angel of the Odd
The Angry Street
The Balloon-Hoax
The Boston Evening Transcript
THE BRIDGE STREET COMMITTEE
The Business Man
The Canterville Ghost
The Cap and Bells
The Chimes
THE COMPLIMENT QUALIFIED
The Defendant
THE DELINQUENT TRAVELLERS
The Devil in the Belfry
THE DEVIL’S THOUGHTS
The Devoted Friend
The Duc de L'omelette
The Emerald of Catherine the Great
The Flying Inn
The Gadfly
The Glass Walking Stick
THE GOOD, GREAT MAN
The Great Inquiry
The Green Overcoat
The Hippopotamus
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq
THE MADMAN AND THE LETHARGIST
The Man That Was Used Up
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Made Gold
The Mercy of Allah
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
The Missing Masterpiece
The Model Millionaire
The Modern Traveller
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Persecution of Religion
The Pickwick Papers
The Postmaster General
THE RASH CONJURER
The Remarkable Rocket
The Soul of Man under Socialism
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
THE TASTE OF THE TIMES
The Terror of a Toy
The Thing
The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade
THE TWO ROUND SPACES ON THE TOMBSTONE
The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaall
The Uses of Diversity
The Crimes of England
This and That and the Other
Thought
TIMON OF ATHENS
The Great Shipwreck as Analogy
TO A CRITIC
TO A PROUD PARENT
TO A VAIN YOUNG LADY
TO A WELL-KNOWN MUSICAL CRITIC, REMARKABLE FOR HIS EARS STICKING THROUGH HIS HAIR
TO FORTUNE
TO FORTUNE
TO MR. PYE
TO ONE WHO PUBLISHED IN PRINT
TO SIMPLICITY
TO THE MUSE
To the Pending Year
To The States (To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad)
Transpositions
Tremendous Trifles
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
On Turnpikes and Medievalism
TWELFTH NIGHT
Two Kinds of Paradox
The Higher Unity
TO the UNKNOWN WARRIOR
Utopia of Usurers
The Logical Vegetarian
VI It is hard for those who have never known persecution
The Victorian Age in Literature
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
What I Saw in America
What's Wrong with the World
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
Wild Ducks
WRITTEN AFTER A WALK BEFORE SUPPER
WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM
X-Ing a Paragrab