NPPF -- Hogarth

[The Great Quail]

>> 13. Hogarthian (26)
> 
> In the manner of William Hogarth, english illustrator and social
> commentator.........Hogarth chronicled the lives of the 'hoi polloi' in a
> Breugelesque fashion....

To add to this, Stravinsky's one opera, "The Rake's Progress," is based on
Hogarth's illustrations. Composed in English from 1948-1951, the poet W. H.
Auden wrote the libretto. The opera is sort of an ironic mock-Mozart piece
detailing a Faustian contract between one Tom Rakewell and the
Mephistophelean Nick Shadow.

Not that I think Nabokov really had this in mind, but I couldn't refrain
from an opera mention, especially given: Russian ex-pat working in English
with a poet over a character named Shadow....

--Quail