Saturday; or, The Flights

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"Saturday; or, The Flights" is one of the individual pastoral poems within John Gay’s 18th-century poetic sequence *The Shepherd’s Week*, depicting rustic rural life with satirical and humorous detail.

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Saturday; or, The Flight 2
Saturday; or, The Flights canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
pastoral poem
poem
author John Gay
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
createdBy John Gay
depicts rustic rural life
firstPublicationCentury 18th century
form verse
genre comic poetry
pastoral poetry
satirical poetry
hasSatiricalTarget idealized classical pastoral tradition
includedIn collections of John Gay’s poems
language English
literaryMovement Augustan literature
literaryPeriod early 18th century English poetry
meter rhymed verse
narrativePerspective third-person narration
partOf The Shepherd's Week
surface form: The Shepherd’s Week
partOfSeries individual day-poems of The Shepherd’s Week
sequencePosition Saturday
setting English countryside
style burlesque of classical pastoral conventions
mock-pastoral
subjectMatter country people
everyday village life
rural customs
tone humorous
satirical

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The Shepherd's Week hasPart Saturday; or, The Flights
Tuesday; or, The Ditty relatedWork Saturday; or, The Flights
this entity surface form: Saturday; or, The Flight
Wednesday; or, The Dumps relatedWork Saturday; or, The Flights
this entity surface form: Saturday; or, The Flight