John Gay

(1685-1732)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gay, John, 1685-1732 NRA: Gay John (1685-1732) Poet and Dramatist DNB: Gay, John (1685-1732), poet and playwright LBT ID: JoGay1732 VIAF ID: 2480890 LOC ID: n80045862	B/BAP: 1685-06-30 DIED: 1732-12-04
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English poet and Scriblerian satirist; author of The Shepherd's Week (1714), Trivia (1714), and The Beggar's Opera (1727).
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY John Gay: The Beggar's Opera. Found 13. Display Records Fables. Found 1. Display Records “Mr. Pope's Welcome from Greece” in Additions to the Works of Alexander Pope. Together with many Original Poems and Letters, of Contemporary Writers, never before published. Found 2. Display Records Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London. Found 0. Display Records