Satire

Satire is a pungent ridicule much employed by poets and prose-writers to lash the follies and vices of the, age or society in which they live. The Greeks did not make much use of satire proper, but it flourished among the Romans, and was used with effect by its inventor Lucilius and the later poets Horace, Juvenal, Persius, and others. Among English satirical writers may be mentioned Pope and Swift.