Author:John Gay

John Gay
(1685–1732)

John Gay

Works

• Wine, A Poem (1708) (transcription project)
• The Present State of Wit, in a Letter to a Friend in the Country (1711)
• The Mohocks: A Tragi-Comical Farce (1712)
• Rural Sports: A Poem (1713)
• The Wife of Bath: A Comedy (1713)
• The Fan: A Poem (1713)
• The Shepherd's Week: In Six Pastorals (1714) (transcription project)
• The What D'Ye Call It: A Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce (1715)
• Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716) (transcription project)
• Three Hours After Marriage: A Comedy (1717)
• Poems on Several Occasions (1720), in 2 vols.
• An Epistle to Her Grace Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough (1722)
• The Captives: A Tragedy (1724)
• To a Lady on Her Passion for Old China (1725)
• Fables (1727) (external scan)
• The Beggar's Opera (1727)
• A New Song of New Similies (1727)
• Polly (1729)
• Acis and Galatea: An English Pastoral Opera (1732)
• Achilles: An Opera (1733)
• The Father and Jupiter (Fable) (c.1795-1804)
• Black-Eyed Susan
• The Distress'd Wife: A Comedy (1743)
• Rehearsal at Gotham
• Molly Mog (1726)
• Newgate's Garland: on Jonathan Wild (1725)

Letters

• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 1 (June 8, 1714)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 2 (August 16, 1714)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 3 (December 22, 1722)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 4 (February 3, 1723)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 5 (September 16, 1726)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 6 (October 22, 1726)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 7 (November 17, 1726)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 8 (February 18, 1727)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 9 (February 15, 1728)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 10 (March 20, 1728)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 11 (May 16, 1728)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 12 (July 6, 1728)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 13 (December 2, 1728)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 14 (March 18, 1729)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 15 (November 9, 1729)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 16 (March 3, 1730)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 17 (March 31, 1730)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 18 (July 4, 1730)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 19 (March 10, 1731)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 20 (April 27, 1731)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 21 (January 18, 1732)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 22 (March 13, 1732)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 23 (May 19, 1732)
• Letter From John Gay to Jonathan Swift - 24 (November 16, 1732)

Letters Written with Others

• Letter From John Gay and Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 1 (October 22, 1727)
• Letter From John Gay and Catherine Hyde to Jonathan Swift - 1 (November 8, 1730)
• Letter From John Gay and Catherine Hyde to Jonathan Swift - 2 (December 6, 1730)
• Letter From John Gay and Catherine Hyde to Jonathan Swift - 3 (April 11, 1731)
• Letter From John Gay and Catherine Hyde to Jonathan Swift - 4 (July 18, 1731)
• Letter From John Gay and Charles Douglas to Jonathan Swift - 1 (November 1731)
• Letter From John Gay and Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 2 (December 1, 1731)
• Letter From John Gay and Catherine Hyde to Jonathan Swift - 5 (July 24, 1732)
• Letter From John Gay and Catherine Hyde to Jonathan Swift - 6 (August 28, 1732)

Works about Gay

• "John Gay" in The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 3, pp.106-123.
• "Gay, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Gay, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Gay, John (1685-1732)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.