Tuesday; or, The Ditty

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"Tuesday; or, The Ditty" is one of the pastoral poems within John Gay’s 1714 sequence *The Shepherd’s Week*, depicting rustic English life in a mock-heroic, dialect-inflected style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
pastoral poem
poem
author John Gay
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
depicts rural customs in early 18th-century England
firstPublishedIn The Shepherd's Week
surface form: The Shepherd’s Week
form verse
genre mock-heroic poetry
pastoral poetry
hasAuthorNationality English
language English
literaryMovement Augustan literature
literaryStyle dialect-inflected
originalMedium print
partOf The Shepherd's Week
surface form: The Shepherd’s Week
publicationYear 1714
relatedWork Friday; or, The Dirge
Monday; or, The Squabble
Saturday; or, The Flights
surface form: Saturday; or, The Flight

Thursday; or, The Spell
Wednesday; or, The Dumps
sequencePosition Tuesday poem in The Shepherd’s Week
setting rustic English life
tone comic
satirical
uses mock-heroic conventions

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The Shepherd's Week hasPart Tuesday; or, The Ditty
Monday; or, The Squabble precedesInSeries Tuesday; or, The Ditty
this entity surface form: The Shepherd's Week: Tuesday; or, The Ditty
Friday; or, The Dirge includedInCycle Tuesday; or, The Ditty
this entity surface form: The Shepherd's Week: Tuesday; or, The Ditty
Wednesday; or, The Dumps relatedWork Tuesday; or, The Ditty