Selected Poems of John Gay

by Walsh,Marcus

• ISBN13: 9780415967396
• ISBN10: 0415967392
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-04-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(11)
Chronology of Life and Works	18	(1)
Select Booklist	19	(2)
Wine	21	(4)
The Shepherd's Week
The Proeme	25	(3)
Monday; or, The Squabble	28	(5)
Wednesday; or, The Dumps	33	(4)
Saturday; or, The Flights	37	(4)
Trivia
Book I	41	(9)
Book III	50	(13)
Eclogues
The Birth of the Squire	63	(3)
The Tea-Table	66	(4)
Fables, 1727
Introduction to the Fables	70	(3)
Fable X: The Elephant and the Bookseller	73	(2)
Fable XXIV: The Butterfly and the Snail	75	(1)
Fable XXIX: The Fox at the Point of Death	76	(2)
Fable XXXIX: The Father and Jupiter	78	(1)
Fable XL: The Two Monkeys	79	(2)
Fable XLII: The Jugglers	81	(2)
Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends	83	(2)
Fables, 1738
Fable I: The Dog and the Fox	85	(3)
Fable II: The Vultur, the Sparrow, and other Birds	88	(3)
Fable XVI: The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-Worm	91	(2)
My Own Epitaph	93	(1)
Notes	94