Selected PoemsTaylor & Francis, 2003 - 95 pagina's While part of the association of wits that included Pope and Swift, John Gay (1685-1732) developed an original idiom in which he presented an insistently social world. His voice and the voice of his age sound clearly in this collection of his poetry. |
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Introduction | 7 |
Chronology of Life and Works | 18 |
The Proeme | 25 |
Wednesday or The Dumps | 33 |
41 150 | 41 |
The Birth of the Squire | 63 |
The Elephant and the Bookseller | 73 |
The Two Monkeys | 79 |
The Vultur the Sparrow and other Birds | 88 |
Notes | 94 |
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