John Gay and "Trivia"

Peter Merchant

John Gay and "Trivia"

Peter Merchant

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Abstract

In his poem Trivia John Gay (1685–1732) casts himself as a “bold Traveller.” This is metropolitan travelling, however, which does not require the poet to “wander from [his] native Home / And (tempting Perils) foreign Cities roam.” Rather, his roaming abroad is limited to London: “Now venture, Muse, from Home to range the Town.” Three books of verse, amounting to more than a thousand lines, describe his itinerary and expound the “art” (as the poem’s subtitle terms it) of “walking the streets of London.”

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
Publisher	Palgrave
Pages	n/a since initially publication is online only
ISBN (Print)	9783319625928
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2020

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Ambulatory poetry, classical epic and the mock-heroic, metropolitan travelling, night-walking, urban description

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