قراءة كتاب Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera"

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Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera"

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Melville Lewis

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Routledge and Sons, Ltd., from the "Poems of John Gay," edited by Mr. John Underwood, in "The Muses' Library." Mr. John Murray has kindly allowed me to quote correspondence to and from Gay printed in the standard edition of Pope's works, edited by the late Rev. Whitwell Elwin and Professor Courthope, and published by him.

LEWIS MELVILLE. LONDON, April, 1921.

Footnotes:

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Swift: Works (ed. Scott), XVIII, p. 65.

[pg xi]

CHAP.	PAGE
PREFACE	vii
I.—EARLY YEARS	1
II.—GAY COMMENCES AUTHOR	7
III.—"RURAL SPORTS"—"THE FAN"—"THE WIFE OF BATH"—ETC.	18
IV.—"THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK"—"A LETTER TO A LADY"	24
V.—"THE WHAT D'YE CALL IT"—"AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF BURLINGTON"—"TRIVIA, OR, THE ART OF WALKING THE STREETS OF LONDON"—"THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE"	36
VI.—"POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS"—GAY INVESTS HIS EARNINGS IN THE SOUTH SEA COMPANY—THE SOUTH SEA "BUBBLE" BREAKS, AND GAY LOSES ALL HIS MONEY—APPOINTED A COMMISSIONER OF THE STATE LOTTERY—LORD LINCOLN GIVES HIM AN APARTMENT IN WHITEHALL—AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS—CORRESPONDENCE WITH MRS. HOWARD	50
VII.—"THE CAPTIVES"—THE FIRST SERIES OF "FABLES"—GAY AND THE COURT—POPE, SWIFT AND MRS. HOWARD	65
VIII.—"THE BEGGAR'S OPERA"	78
[pg xii]IX.—"POLLY"	92
X.—CORRESPONDENCE (1729)	105
XI.—CORRESPONDENCE (1730)	115
XII.—CORRESPONDENCE (1731)	126
XIII.—DEATH	133
APPENDIX:—
I.—NOTES ON THE SOURCES OF THE TONES OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA," by W.H. GRATTAN FLOOD, Mus.D.	150
II.—A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN GAY	156
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