Selected PoemsA 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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... not only such as in the present Times is not uttered , but was never uttered in Times past ; and , if I judge ... too much of the Language of old Times to be fit for the Present , too much of the Present to have been fit for the Old ...
... not only such as in the present Times is not uttered , but was never uttered in Times past ; and , if I judge ... too much of the Language of old Times to be fit for the Present , too much of the Present to have been fit for the Old ...
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Our present schemes are too profound For Machiavel himself to sound : To censure ' em I've no pretension ; I own they're past my comprehension . You say your brother wants a place , ( ' Tis many a younger brother's case ) And that he ...
Our present schemes are too profound For Machiavel himself to sound : To censure ' em I've no pretension ; I own they're past my comprehension . You say your brother wants a place , ( ' Tis many a younger brother's case ) And that he ...
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From his early Miltonic parody Wine through to the Fables - for many years his most popular poems - Gay developed an original idiom in which to present a particular physical and moral world lucidly perceived . Gay's place as a dramatist ...
From his early Miltonic parody Wine through to the Fables - for many years his most popular poems - Gay developed an original idiom in which to present a particular physical and moral world lucidly perceived . Gay's place as a dramatist ...
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Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Selected Poems Fyfield books G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | John Gay |
| Editors | John Gay, Marcus Walsh |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Aug 2007 |
| ISBN | 0856352802, 9780856352805 |
| Length | 95 pages |
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