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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... pastoral poet ( and of course there are implications beyond pastoral ) imitate the actual and imperfect world , or does he rather offer an idealising imitation of perfected nature ? Is he to write as Theocritus , Spenser and now Ambrose ...
... pastoral poet ( and of course there are implications beyond pastoral ) imitate the actual and imperfect world , or does he rather offer an idealising imitation of perfected nature ? Is he to write as Theocritus , Spenser and now Ambrose ...
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... pastoral of comic realism with its own life independent of the quarrel that gave it birth . To use the words of Samuel Johnson , who had a proper contempt for merely artificial pastoral : the effect of reality and truth became ...
... pastoral of comic realism with its own life independent of the quarrel that gave it birth . To use the words of Samuel Johnson , who had a proper contempt for merely artificial pastoral : the effect of reality and truth became ...
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... Pastoral know I none . Yet , certes , such it behoveth a Pastoral to be , as Nature in the Country affordeth ; and the Manners also meetly copied from the rustical Folk therein . In this also my Love to my native Country Britain much ...
... Pastoral know I none . Yet , certes , such it behoveth a Pastoral to be , as Nature in the Country affordeth ; and the Manners also meetly copied from the rustical Folk therein . In this also my Love to my native Country Britain much ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Copyright | |
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