41. Gay, John - Enlightenment Revolution Gay, John (16851732) English, Poet and Dramatist. John Gay was one of the foremost satirists of the English Augustan Age, a member of the Scriblerus Club with Pope, Alexander http://www.enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php/Gay,_John

Gay, John From Enlightenment Revolution Jump to: navigation search Gay, John (1685-1732): English, Poet and Dramatist. John Gay was one of the foremost satirists of the English Augustan Age, a member of the Scriblerus Club with Pope, Alexander , John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell and Lord Oxford from 1714, when Swift, Jonathan founded it. Born to Dissenting parents in Barnstaple, Devon, he was orphaned at age ten and subsequently apprenticed in London at Willet's Drapery Shop. His first poem Wine appeared in 1708, his first play The Wife of Bath in 1711. He never married and there is no consensus among scholars concerning his sexual orientation. Strong ambivalence marks almost all of Gay's work, arising often from the tension between the values of his self-reliant mercantile background and those of the royal court whose preferment he deferentially sought for much of his adult life. Gay's ambivalence typically expressed itself in novel hybrid literary forms that effectively mingle aggression and self-disguise, the latter so successfully that Gay's writings were often attributed to the pen of his chief mentor, Pope. In works such as the georgic Rural Sports The Shepherd's Week (1714), the farce

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47. Gay, John Biography - S9.com 1685 Gay was born in Barnstaple, England on June 30, 1685. 1714 - Gay wrote The Shepherd's Week, a series of six pastorals drawn from English rustic life. Pope had urged him http://www.s9.com/Biography/Gay-John

Welcome, guest! ~ Login Register Home Browse ... Challenge Quick Search: S9.com Biographies Gay, John Born: 1685 AD Died: 1732 AD, at 47 years of age. Nationality: English Categories: Dramatist Poets Satirists 1685 - Gay was born in Barnstaple, England on June 30, 1685. 1714 - Gay wrote The Shepherd's Week, a series of six pastorals drawn from English rustic life. Pope had urged him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of Ambrose Philips, who had been praised by The Guardian (1713), to the neglect of Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English Theocritus. Gay's pastorals completely achieved this goal, but his ludicrous pictures of the English country lads and their loves were found to be entertaining on their own account. 1715 - Probably with some help from Pope, he produced What d'ye call it?, a dramatic skit on contemporary tragedy, with special reference to Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved. It left the public so ignorant of its real meaning that Lewis Theobald and Benjamin Griffin published a Complete Key to what d'ye call it to explain it. 1716 - Appeared his Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, a poem in three books, for which he acknowledged having received several hints from Swift. It contains graphic and humorous descriptions of the London of that period.

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