John Gay | Fabl, Vol. I & II | The Metropolan Mm of Art

Contents:

• THE FABL OF JOHN GAY
• THE FABL OF JOHN GAY : WH BGRAPHIL AND CRIL TRODUCTN AND BIBLGRAHIL APPENDIX
• THE FABL OF JOHN GAY: ILLTRATED, WH AN ORIGAL MEMOIR, INTRODUCTN ...

THE FABL OF JOHN GAY

‘El cisne y el cuervo’ una fábula rta sobre la envidia, cra por John Gay (1685-1732), primer bráni que cribió fábulas en su idma. Pos fábulas o relatos lo explin tan bien o ta John Gay l cisne y el cuervo.

Two volum of Fabl by John Gay (1685-1732) are prime exampl (K65. Tle pag om the two volum of John Gay’s works.

What Gay’s imprsns of this would have been n only be imaged.

THE FABL OF JOHN GAY : WH BGRAPHIL AND CRIL TRODUCTN AND BIBLGRAHIL APPENDIX

“The Fabl of Gay have ever been teemed for their easy flow of versifitn for their w and humour and for ntag a nsirable portn of moral and worldly stctn. Gay is bt remembered for his poetil, dramatic and observatnal works, which clu the Shepherd’s Week (1714), the Beggar’s Opera (1728) and the Wife of Bath: a edy (1730) – each of which are held the Sn llectn alongsi a plethora of Gay’s other works. But wh the royal ditn of his fabl Gay had hoped to secure himself a prtig (and ed lucrative) posn at urt.

THE FABL OF JOHN GAY: ILLTRATED, WH AN ORIGAL MEMOIR, INTRODUCTN ...

Gay died December 1732 and is now buried the south transept of Wtmster Abbey, jt across the river om Lambeth Palace Library. Cox 1738, produced om mancripts left behd by Gay. Insi n be found an image of Gay’s monument and a short ditn to him as “a man of scere heart”:.