Life and Letters of John Gay

About this eBook

Author

Melville, Lewis, 1874-1932

Title

Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera"

Credits

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Leah Moser and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Gay, John, 1685-1732

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13790

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13790

Release Date

October 19, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.AUTHOR OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA" BY LEWIS MELVILLE — PUBLISHED IN LONDON BY DANIEL O'CONNOR, NINETY GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.I: 1921 — BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
3. 3.To GEORGE MAIR
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.CHAPTER I — 1685-1706 EARLY YEARS
7. 7.CHAPTER II — 1706-1712 GAY COMMENCES AUTHOR
8. 8.CHAPTER III — 1713 "RURAL SPORTS," "THE FAN," "THE WIFE OF BATH," ETC.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — 1714 "THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK," "A LETTER TO A LADY."
10. 10.CHAPTER V — 1715-1719 "The What D'ye Call It"—An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington—"Trivia, or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London"—"Three Hours After Marriage."
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — 1720 "Poems on Several Occasions"—Gay Invests His Earnings in the South Sea Company—The South Sea "Bubble" Breaks, and Gay Loses all His Money—Appointed a Commissioner of the State Lottery—Lord Lincoln Gives Him an Apartment in Whitehall—At Tunbridge Wells—Correspondence with Mrs. Howard.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — 1724-1727 "THE CAPTIVES"—THE FIRST SERIES OF "FABLES"—GAY AND THE COURT—POPE, SWIFT AND MRS. HOWARD.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — 1727 "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA"
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — 1728-1729 "POLLY"
15. 15.CHAPTER X — 1729 CORRESPONDENCE
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — 1730 CORRESPONDENCE
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — 1731 CORRESPONDENCE
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — 1732 DEATH
19. 19.APPENDIX
20. 20.I
21. 21.SOURCES OF THE TUNES.
22. 22.II — A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN GAY.
23. 23.III — PROGRAMME OF THE REVIVAL OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA," LYRIC THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH, JUNE 7TH, 1920.
24. 24.INDEX

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