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Gay, John - 1685–1732, English playwright and poet, b. Barnstaple, Devon. Educated at the local grammar school, he was apprenticed to a silk mercer for a brief time before commencing his literary career in London. The first of his writings to have any real merit were the mock pastoral, The Shepherd's Week (1714), and Trivia (1716), an amusing description of London life. He is remembered

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John Gay, Social Critic » Read Now
by Sven M. Armens. 264 pgs.

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...John Gay SOCIAL CRITIC John Gay SOCIAL CRITIC By SVEN M. ARMENS KINGS CROWN PRESS...WIFE AND MY FATHER Preface THE INTENTIONS of this study of John Gay are stated in the...
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The Poetical Works of John Gay, including Polly, the Beggar's Opera, and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work » Read Now
by John Gay, G. C. Faber. 702 pgs.

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...JOHN GAY From the painting by W. Aikman The Poetical Works of JOHN GAY Oxford University Press London Edinburgh...to the UNIVERSITY The Poetical Works of JOHN GAY Including...
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Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope, Gay » Read Now
by John Richardson. 188 pgs.

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Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in support of the...
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Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in support of the treaty that was meant to effect that increase. The book begins with contemporary ideas about slavery, with the Tory ministry years and with texts written during those years. These texts tend to obscure the importance of the slave trade to Tory planning. In its second half, the book analyses the attitudes towards slavery in Pope's Horatian poems, An Essay on Man , Polly , A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels . John Richardson shows how, despite differences, Swift, Pope and Gay adopt a mixed position of admiration for freedom alongside implicit support for slavery.
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John Gay's London Illustrated from the Poetry of the Time » Read Now
by William Henry Irving. 459 pgs.

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...HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS JOHN GAY JOHN GAYS LONDON ILLUSTRATED...Anne and an equally brief account of John Gay and the literary men he knew. With...time...
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John Gay's the Fan and the "Paper War" of 1713, in CLIO » Read Now
by Patrick J. Daly Jr. 20 pgs.

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The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre after 1660 ("John Gay" begins on p. 43) » Read Now
by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley. 156 pgs.

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Humor in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide ("John Gay (1685-1732)" begins on p. 39) » Read Now
by Don L. F. Nilsen. 298 pgs.

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During the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, there was a wide range of literary humor. Much of this humor was satiric, ranging from the sharp barbs of Pope and Swift to the more subtle but stinging wordplay of Addison. In the 18th century, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne wrote humorous...
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During the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, there was a wide range of literary humor. Much of this humor was satiric, ranging from the sharp barbs of Pope and Swift to the more subtle but stinging wordplay of Addison. In the 18th century, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne wrote humorous novels, in which they satirized society. During the 19th century, writers such as Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Carlyle continued to use humor to comment on the issues of their day. This reference book examines how British writers of the 18th and 19th centuries used humor in their works. An introductory chapter overviews humor in British literature of the era, and sections then treat humor in British literature of the 18th century and in three periods of the 19th century. Each of these sections includes a short introduction, followed by chronologically arranged profiles of various authors. Each profile discusses how the author used humor and includes extensive bibliographic information.
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English Literature from Dryden to Burns ("John Gay (1685-1732)" begins on p. 190) » Read Now
by Alan Dugald McKillop. 454 pgs.

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...John Dennis 185 Mary Wortley Montagu 186 Matthew Prior 188 John Gay 190 John Arbuthnot 194 James Thomson 195 The Seasons 199...
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A Survey-History of English Literature ("John Gay" begins on p. 358) » Read Now
by William Bradley Otis, Morriss H. Needleman. 688 pgs.

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...Arthur K. Burt, Warren B. Austin, and John C. Thirlwall, Jr., all of the English...249 XIV THE AGE OF MILTON: JOHN MILTON 277 Neo-Classicism...XVI THE RESTORATION PERIOD:...
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Studies in the Comic ("The Beggar's Opera" begins on p. 197) » Read Now
by J. R. Caldwell, W. H. Durham, B. H. Lehman, Gordon McKenzie, J. F. Ross. 298 pgs.

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Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism, XVII-XX Centuries ("'The Beggar's Opera': 18th Century" begins on p. 69) » Read Now
by A. C. Ward. 355 pgs.

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Cyclopedia of World Authors (1958) ("John Gay" begins on p. 409) » Read Now
by Frank N. Magill, Dayton Kohler. 1204 pgs.

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...WRITERS AND CONSULTANTS Gay Wilson Allen Professor of...Home to the Cockade City JOHN MILTON Lodwick Hartley Chairman...slightly behind delightful and gay Lazarillo de...