William Gay (2 May 1865 – 22 December 1897) was a Scottish-born Australian poet. He was born at Bridge of Weir, in Renfrewshire, Scotland, eldest child of William Gay and his wife Jane née Tagg.Joseph Jones, 'Gay, William (1865–1897)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, MUP, 1981, pp. 633–634. Retrieved 31 October 2008
Gay edited "The Commonwealth & the Empire" with Mary Sampson.
He died on 22 December 1897.
Bibliography
Sonnets and Other Verses (1894) Sonnets (1896) Christ on Olympus and Other Poems (1896) Poems of William Gay (1910) The Complete Poetical Works of William Gay, and, Purple and Gold : Poems and Lyrics (1913)
References
External links The Complete Poetical Works of William Gay at the University of Sydney