John Gay, Poet "of a Lower Order": Comments on His Rural Poems and Other Early WritingsNatur och kultur, 1964 - 249 pages |
Contents
PREFACE | 7 |
EARLY DIRECTION AND EARLY POEMS | 19 |
GAY AND UNLEARNED BALLADS | 39 |
Copyright | |
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