John Gay

There appeared at Dublin an anonymous poem by MB : A Tale, Being an Addition to Mr. Gay 's Fables.

He concluded, let Mrs Howard know that I recommend you to the Queen , though he declined to supply a direct introduction to a potential royal patron. Two months later Gay wrote to Swift...

Other poems address public or personal topics, sometimes blending the two together. One may assume that in her poems on political issues AC expressed her actual opinions, even while mindful of remaining acceptable. Her Serious...

This novel provides a satirical portrait of high society in early eighteenth-century England. It centres on Henrietta, Countess of Marchmont, an upper-class orphan enduring a loveless marriage and imperilled by her first visit to...

The long epistle mentioned on the title-page, a philosophical poem On the Origin of the World, and the two Latin psalms are the works that show most revision since the earlier volume. A...

EB offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre (her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood (though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn , and Delarivier Manley , whom she calls the...

HM continued after this to keep up a rate of one or two new novels a year (though 1897 and 1899 were fallow years). They include T'other Dear Charmer, 1892 (titled from John Gay

These poems have been linked since first publication with the names of Pope and Gay . But there are many reasons to think that the contributions of these two were far smaller than has been...

These poems were three of the six eclogues (one for each weekday) preserved in the poetry album which Montagu claimed as her own, and printed as Six Town Eclogues in 1747. Monday, the first...

The first volume had a frontispiece designed by AMP 's brother R. K. Porter . The epigraph came from the introduction to Gay 's Fables (1727) : From objects most minute and mean, / A...

The title-page has a quotation from John Gay about the outspoken integrity of the poet (as contrasted with courtiers). A copy was offered for sale in late twentieth century by C. R. Johnson as...

Here a mother teaching her children out of Gay's Fables, 1727, finds her fav'rite Son so moved by the tale of the hare and many friends that she has to assure him that if...