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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... nature ? Is he to write as Theocritus , Spenser and now Ambrose Philips do about more or less real rustics in a more or less realistic dialect , or should he , as Pope claims to , follow Virgil and write of an imagined Golden Age , in a ...
... nature ? Is he to write as Theocritus , Spenser and now Ambrose Philips do about more or less real rustics in a more or less realistic dialect , or should he , as Pope claims to , follow Virgil and write of an imagined Golden Age , in a ...
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... nature . Thus in Fable 40 two grave apes , imagining themselves , as mankind may do with a restricted vision , to be the prototypes of wisdom , are amused that men should apparently try to imitate their gymnastic skills , and themselves ...
... nature . Thus in Fable 40 two grave apes , imagining themselves , as mankind may do with a restricted vision , to be the prototypes of wisdom , are amused that men should apparently try to imitate their gymnastic skills , and themselves ...
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... natures , And weigh the pow'r of other creatures , Who by the partial work hath shown He knows so little of his own ... nature made ! Go , man , the ways of courts discern , You'll find a spaniel still might learn . How can the foxe's ...
... natures , And weigh the pow'r of other creatures , Who by the partial work hath shown He knows so little of his own ... nature made ! Go , man , the ways of courts discern , You'll find a spaniel still might learn . How can the foxe's ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Copyright | |
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