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 John Gay: Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleuch, 5 September 1813 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [16 April 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 30 November 1820 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 29 May 1822 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to John Bates Dibdin, [11 January 1825 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Campbell. Found 1: ¶ 3 The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 162 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 15 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 8 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 30 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 22 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XIX. 1825-1827 Found 1: ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1813 Chapter II 1820-21 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Frankenstein Found 1: ¶ 17 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 1: Introductory Found 1: ¶ 7 Ch. 14: Private Life Verse 2: p. 246b p. 246b Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 65 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 10 Found 1: ¶ 45 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVI 1818 Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch. XVIII Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ 21 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 21 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XII. Found 1: ¶ 24 Chap. XXIII. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1815 Letters: 1825