Selected PoemsCarcanet, 1979 - 95 pages A selection of the poetry of John Gay (1685-1732) who was part of the 'association of wits' that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. His wit is characterised by a benign and ironic sense of the fallibility of humankind. |
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... Gay's Shepherd's Week may certainly be read as an attack on Philips . Hoyt Trowbridge has demonstrated in detail how Gay parodies Philips ' obsolete language , simplicities of expression , rustic names , violations of decorum and ...
... Gay's Shepherd's Week may certainly be read as an attack on Philips . Hoyt Trowbridge has demonstrated in detail how Gay parodies Philips ' obsolete language , simplicities of expression , rustic names , violations of decorum and ...
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... Gay's lines on the ' Prognosticks ' of the weather , for example , like those in Swift's ' A Description of a City Shower ' , follow a passage in the first Georgic , and Gay's repetition of ' certain Signs ' is meant to point to ...
... Gay's lines on the ' Prognosticks ' of the weather , for example , like those in Swift's ' A Description of a City Shower ' , follow a passage in the first Georgic , and Gay's repetition of ' certain Signs ' is meant to point to ...
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... Gay's Fables , and especially the first volume ( 1727 ) , have been much the most popular of his poems . Among the numerous editions that have appeared between Gay's time and ours are those with illu- strations by Thomas Bewick ( 1779 ) ...
... Gay's Fables , and especially the first volume ( 1727 ) , have been much the most popular of his poems . Among the numerous editions that have appeared between Gay's time and ours are those with illu- strations by Thomas Bewick ( 1779 ) ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Copyright | |
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