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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... poem on London life in English literature ' . Juvenal's third Satire , on the dangers of life in Rome , is an obvious prototype , which had already been imitated by John Oldham ( in his Poems , and Translations , 1683 ) , and was to ...
... poem on London life in English literature ' . Juvenal's third Satire , on the dangers of life in Rome , is an obvious prototype , which had already been imitated by John Oldham ( in his Poems , and Translations , 1683 ) , and was to ...
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... poem written for ' honest Men ' ( 1.119 ) there is a frequent contrast between the virtuous poverty of those who walk and the luxurious vanity of those who ride , between ' Use ' and ' empty Show ' . This apparently lies behind the ...
... poem written for ' honest Men ' ( 1.119 ) there is a frequent contrast between the virtuous poverty of those who walk and the luxurious vanity of those who ride , between ' Use ' and ' empty Show ' . This apparently lies behind the ...
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... poem the reader must be as wary of verbal ambush as the walker of dead ends and Drury Lane . ' The Tea - Table ' and ' The Birth of the Squire ' are selected here from the four ' Eclogues ' which Gay included among his Poems on Several ...
... poem the reader must be as wary of verbal ambush as the walker of dead ends and Drury Lane . ' The Tea - Table ' and ' The Birth of the Squire ' are selected here from the four ' Eclogues ' which Gay included among his Poems on Several ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Copyright | |
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