The iconography of this work obeys the conventions of the time. The poet, in 'melancholy' pose, is shown awaiting divine inspiration from the poetic Muse. This was how Alexander Pope (1688-1744 ...

John Gay, the celebrated poet and dramatist, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey on 23rd December 1732, in the central part of the area near Thomas Parr's grave. The funeral was a ...