Walkg the Streets of Eighteenth-Century LondonJohn Gay's Trivia (1716) | Oxford Amic

Contents:

• TRIVIA: OR, THE ART OF WALKG THE STREETS OF LONDON. BY MR. GAY
• WALKG THE STREETS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON: JOHN GAY'S TRIVIA (1716)
• JOHN GAY(1685-1732)

TRIVIA: OR, THE ART OF WALKG THE STREETS OF LONDON. BY MR. GAY

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WALKG THE STREETS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON: JOHN GAY'S TRIVIA (1716)

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Whyman (eds), Walkg the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia (1716) (Oxford, 2009; onle edn, Oxford Amic, 3 Oct. This chapter prents John Gay's poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walkg the Streets of London, which is divid to Books I, II, and III.

JOHN GAY(1685-1732)

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LibriVox rerdg of Trivia, or The Art of Walkg the Streets of London by John Gay. Read English by Phil Benson John Gay's Trivia is a satiril gui to walkg the streets of London, wrten mock heroic style. Wrten almost a century before Lamb fashned himself as a man the crowd of morny, John Gay’s (1685–1732) Trivia: or, the Art of Walkg the Streets of London also ps cy agast untry.

” By openg Trivia wh the image of a shepherd bunglg melodi on a poorman’s panpip at a “crossroads” — trivium, the Lat, lerally a place where three roads meet — Gay performs a rhetoril manver ak to Lamb refg the peaks above Grasmere for London’s squalid Ardia.

If Virgil’s third eclogue, wh s gloatg terlocutors, timat that somethg is rotten bulic paradise, Gay seemgly sets out to prove that there is somethg analogoly pastoral about seedy London. Burlqug the Augtan era’s fixatn on classil tradn, as his fellow Scriblerian Alexanr Pope did The Rape of the Lock (1712), Gay renrs practil advice for perambulatg England’s pal to oftentim absurd, hexametric verse. ” To pture the leechg sprawl of a fast growg metropolis, Gay riffed on the va mecum (walk wh me) genre: a kd of reference book that, acrdg to David Alff, mak walkg to artisanship, a technil craft.

Hunt, Gay's scriptn of pothol as “dark v” openg to sewers — “arched Vlts their gapg Jaws extend" — is not unlike the mythic vaga ntata scribed by Frd. ” Even stranger, though nsistent wh the amalgamatn of urban astcture and women’s reproductive systems, Gay class y not as athbound entropy, but as a generative force of cy planng. His scen of uneven bbl, clogged gutters, and dangero habants are “evince of London’s health: the cy’s pletn ocsns labor”, thks Alff, creatg the need for the work of matenance, enforcement, and repair (the tasks divid between builrs, nstabl, parish, and such) and the labors of verse — the need for navigatnal guidance, which Gay’s poem purports to supply.

Williams, who thought that, unlike the “savage” Swift and the “speful” Pope, John Gay “me to sff, but remaed to pray”. Gay, John, 1685-1732; Williams, William Henry, 1852-.