Selected Poems

by John Gay

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.

Genres: Poetry

416 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1979

About the author

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John Gay was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.

Reviews

[Willy Marz Thiessam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very Bawdy.

Edited by Alan Ross, 1950