In poetry, all of the literary members of the Scribblerus Club produced verse satires.

Later 19th century writers had little use for verse satire, Pope, or Dryden; Matthew Arnold famously dismissed them as "classics of our prose."

The published version was burned publicly as part of the Archbishop of Canterbury's attack on verse satire.

Although Donne had already circulated satires in manuscript, Hall's was the first real attempt in English at verse satire on the Juvenalian model.

Hall gave up verse satires and lighter forms of literature when he was ordained a minister in the Church of England.

Marston had, however, arrived on the literary scene as the fad for verse satire was to be checked by censors.

From March 1831 to April 1832 they produced a series of verse satires issued weekly, the Némésis, attacking the government and ministers of Louis Philippe.

'The rest to some faint meaning make pretence /But Shadwell never deviates into sense,' wrote Dryden in his verse satire.

However, he wrote a verse satire entitled "The Times!"

His poetry was widely known and his verse satire was considered to be styled like that of the English poet, Samuel Butler.