Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London
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Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London, a poem by J.
Gay in three books, published 1716. It is a town ecologue, owing ‘some hints’ to
Swift, whose ‘City Shower’ (1710) is in the same vein. Gay conducts the reader through the streets of London, by day and then by night. It is a lively, affectionate, and entertaining piece, and a mine of information. ‘Trivia’ means ‘streets’, from the root meaning of ‘road junction’, and Gay, who invokes Trivia as a goddess of the highways, also refers to the murder of Laius by Oedipus at the crossroads in Book III, l. 217.
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