Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
John Gay
Standard Name: Gay, John
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | At this time LMWM
met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope
, Gay
, Charles Jervas
, and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti
. |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 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... |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Grisell Murray | At almost every stage of GM
's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She... |
Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | During these few months Pope
, Swift
, Gay
, and others met regularly as a brilliant, informal, all-male club in London for fun, jokes, and literary projects; they called themselves the Scriblerus Club. |
Performance of text | Alexander Pope | John Gay
, AP
, and John Arbuthnot
's farce Three Hours After Marriage was first staged; it was published anonymously the same month. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 431 Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot. |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Porter | 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... |
Occupation | Leah Sumbel | She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay |
Literary Setting | Emma Tennant | Her heroine, based on herself aged fifteen onwards, is a red-haired debutante from Scotland, progressing from a seedy finishing school to being launched on the London season, an environment full of seducers and conmen where... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Tollet | 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. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 37 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan |
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