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Periodicals etc.: contributed to the British Apollo, ed. Aaron Hill and Marshall Smith, a promotional poem ‘To the learned ingenious Author of Licentia Poetica Discuss'd’; Miscellany, ed. Bernard Lintot (‘On a Miscellany of Poems’ and a translation of ‘The Story of Arachne’); the Guardian, ed. Steele (contributed part of the essay on an ‘Obsequium Catholicon’); Poetical Miscellany, ed. Steele (‘A Thought on Eternity’); anonymous tory satires in The Examiner | |||
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* 1685-06-30 Barnstaple, + 1732-12-04, English poet and playwright
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | John Gay |
* 1685-06-30 Barnstaple, + 1732-12-04, English poet and playwright |
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Education: Barnstaple grammar school; did not attend university due to financial constraints; apprentice to the silk mercer John Willet in London
Patrons: William Pulteney (“it seems probable that Gay used the pseudonym James Baker to aid his new patron”) (DNB); the earl of Burlington; the earl of Warwick; duchess of Queensberry; Henrietta Howard
Coteries: Aaron Hill; William Fortescue; Scriblerus Club, 1714: Pope, Swift, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Lord Oxford; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Periodicals etc.: contributed to the British Apollo, ed. Aaron Hill and Marshall Smith, a promotional poem ‘To the learned ingenious Author of Licentia Poetica Discuss'd’; Miscellany, ed. Bernard Lintot (‘On a Miscellany of Poems’ and a translation of ‘The Story of Arachne’); the Guardian, ed. Steele (contributed part of the essay on an ‘Obsequium Catholicon’); Poetical Miscellany, ed. Steele (‘A Thought on Eternity’); anonymous tory satires in The Examiner
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