Item
Fables
- Title
- en_US Fables
- Description
- en_US John Gay
- Creator
- en_US Gay, John See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Various
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:15:35Z
- en_US 1987-07
- en_US 1967
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:15:35Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1727
- Abstract
- en_US The program is summed up in introduction: Thus ev'ry object of creation/Can furnish hints to contemplation,/And from the most minute and mean/A virtuous mind can morals glean. 50 and 16 talky, preachy fables. Occasional wit: in I 5, the ram says that sheep get their revenge on mankind by supplying drums and parchment (for war). In I 10 a Greek-speaking elephant gets into a bookseller's shop. In I 12 a pet deer gets frisky and loses all inhibitions; the moral is pointed against country girls with soldiers. I 21 The Ratcatcher and the Cats comes close to Aesopic fable: touching and wise. Likewise, I 50's hare is deserted by all friends ; the last of them says We'll lament you ! The second volume has one great couplet: And what's a butterfly? At best,/He's but a caterpillar, drest... Fables are regularly turned against mankind as the most bestial of animals. Gay seems angry. I's illustrations are poor; Gravelot's in II are larger and better. It was a chore to read this book.
- Identifier
- en_US 571 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California,
- en_US Los Angeles, CA
- Subject
- en_US PR3473 .F3 1967 See all items with this value
- en_US Gay See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books