Книга: Gay John «The poetical works of John Gay»

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• Gay, John — (1685 1732)    Born in Barnstaple, Devon, he lived most of is life in London. He was secretary to the Duchess of Monmouth and to Lord Clarendon, envoy to the court of Hanover. Although chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar s Opera (1728) …   British and Irish poets

• The Song of the Vermonters, 1779 — is a poem by the American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 ndash; September 7, 1892) about the U.S. state of Vermont during its years of independence (1777–1791), sometimes called the Vermont Republic. [cite book |author=Van …   Wikipedia

• The Hilliad — was Christopher Smart s mock epic poem written as a literary attack upon John Hill on 1 February 1753. The title is a play on Alexander Pope s The Dunciad with a substitution of Hill s name, which represents Smart s debt to Pope for the form and… …   Wikipedia

• Library Edition of the British Poets — The Library Edition of the British Poets was the title given to a 48 volume edition of the works of British poets, published between 1853 and 1860 by James Nichol of Edinburgh, edited, with lives of the authors, critical dissertations and… …   Wikipedia

• The Dunciad — Alexander Pope The Dunciad /ˈd …   Wikipedia

• gay — homosexuell; queer; homophil; schwul * * * gay 〈[ gɛı] Adj.〉 homosexuell; Ggs straight (3) [engl., eigtl. „heiter“] * * * gay [geɪ ] <indekl. Adj.> [engl. gay, eigtl. = fröhlich, lustig < afrz. gai, H. u.] ( …   Universal-Lexikon