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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... satire , but he seldom identifies his target with a satirist's certainty . Gay does not have the heroic intellectual and moral vision of Pope , and his ironist's taste for observing life from the fence de- prives much of his poetry of ...
... satire , but he seldom identifies his target with a satirist's certainty . Gay does not have the heroic intellectual and moral vision of Pope , and his ironist's taste for observing life from the fence de- prives much of his poetry of ...
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... Satire , on the dangers of life in Rome , is an obvious prototype , which had already been imitated by John Oldham ... satirist is not a feature of Trivia . Gay also owed ' several Hints ' for his poem to two fragmentary satiric pieces ...
... Satire , on the dangers of life in Rome , is an obvious prototype , which had already been imitated by John Oldham ... satirist is not a feature of Trivia . Gay also owed ' several Hints ' for his poem to two fragmentary satiric pieces ...
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... Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated ( 1733 ) , is an explicit apology for satire , announcing Gay's intention to ' lash vice in gen'ral fiction ' ( line 49 ) and hold up the glass of satire to mankind ( line 54 ) . The 1738 ...
... Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated ( 1733 ) , is an explicit apology for satire , announcing Gay's intention to ' lash vice in gen'ral fiction ' ( line 49 ) and hold up the glass of satire to mankind ( line 54 ) . The 1738 ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Copyright | |
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