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Poems by John Gay. John Gay, scend form an old fay that had been long posssn of the manor of Goldworthy, Devonshire, was born 1688, at or near Barnstaple, where he was ted by Mr. Luck, who tgh" name="scriptn * john gay poems *

John Gay, scend form an old fay that had been long posssn of the manor of Goldworthy, Devonshire, was born 1688, at or near Barnstaple, where he was ted by Mr. Unr such a master Gay was likely to form a taste for poetry.

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Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay. Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to… * john gay poems *

How long he ntued behd the unter, or wh what gree of softns and xtery he received and acodated the ladi, as he probably took nIn the last year of Queen Anne's life, Gay was ma secretary to the Earl of Clarendon, ambassador to the urt of Hanover. Gay that disastro year had a prent om young Craggs of some South-sea stock, and once supposed himself to be master of twenty thoand pounds.

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' This unsel was rejected; the prof and prcipal were lost, and Gay sank unr the lamy so low that his life beme danger.

Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay.

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Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper stead.

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John Gay, English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the thor of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distguished by good-humoured satire and technil assurance. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple. He was * john gay poems *

By 1714, Gay had started rrpondg wh Alexanr Pope and bee a member of the Scribles Club, a group that clud Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Lord Oxford. Gay’s publitns datg om this time clu the poems Trivia: Or, the Art of Walkg the Streets of London (1716) and The Shepherd’s Week (1714). The Scribles Club fluenced Gay’s major plays of this perd, The What D’Ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717), which was equently lked to Pope.

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Gay was more or ls pennt on patronage his whole life and lived var semi-employed stat wh a number of aristocrats.

Though relyg on the generosy of patrons such as the Duchs of Queensberry, Gay also earned money om his plays, pecially The Beggar’s Opera (1728), which enjoyed unprecented succs. Allegedly satirizg then-prime mister Sir Robert Walpole, Gay’s play gaed notoriety and ma stagg s sequel, Polly, impossible until 1777. The Beggar’s Opera was some ways the culmatn of Gay’s reer.

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Pope was a pallbearer and ntributed an epaph to Gay’s memorial. Above are Gay’s own words: “Life is a jt; and all thgs show / I thought so once; but now I know .

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John Gay Bgraphy. John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scribles Club. Gay was born Barnstaple, England and was ted at the town's grammar school.

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