All the Workes of Iohn Taylor, Frontispiece of 'All the Workes of Iohn Taylor'. John Taylor (1580-1683).English poet and pamphleteer. Known as the water poet, as he was a Thames waterman before being pressed into the navy. Image taken from All the Workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet. Beeing Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author: With sundry new Additions, corrected, etc. Originally published in Printed by I. B, for Iames Boler: London, 1630.