This excellent specimen of Dryden's prose satire was prefixed to his satiric poem "The Medal", published in March, 1682.

Heine's love-hate affair with his native Germany is and was notorious, and this long satiric poem shows rather more irritation than love.

And here it will be proper to give the definition of the Greek satiric poem from Casaubon before I leave this subject.

Most argumentative, didactic, or satiric poems are partly of this kind; and in imaginative poems anything which is really a mere "conceit" is mere decoration.