Touching and lonely figures are keen on the favorite business of eccentrics.
In the painting “The Poor Poet” it is a writer in a nightcap lying on a mattress spread out on the floor, not paying attention to life and being absorbed only by creativity.
Related Paintings 
Bookworm by Karl Spitzweg 
Lovers of cacti by Karl Spitzweg 
Portrait of the poet GR Derzhavin-1795 by Vladimir Borovikovsky 
Portrait of the poet Alonso Ersily-i-Sunigi by El Greco 
Amant de cactus – Karl Spitzweg 
Rat de biblioth̬que РKarl Spitzweg 
Portrait of NN Goncharova by Karl Bryullov 
Saint Peter distributing community property among the poor by Masaccio
Bookworm by Karl Spitzweg Lovers of cacti by Karl Spitzweg Portrait of the poet GR Derzhavin-1795 by Vladimir Borovikovsky Portrait of the poet Alonso Ersily-i-Sunigi by El Greco Amant de cactus РKarl Spitzweg Rat de biblioth̬que РKarl Spitzweg Portrait of NN Goncharova by Karl Bryullov Saint Peter distributing community property among the poor by Masaccio