Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       CHRONOLOGY OF GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND POEMS.

       DESCRIPTIVE POEMS

       THE DESERTED VILLAGE

       THE DESERTED VILLAGE

       LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

       LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

       THE CAPTIVITY

       NOTES

       APPENDIXES

       APPENDIX A

       APPENDIX B

       APPENDIX C

       APPENDIX D

       APPENDIX E

       APPENDIX F

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      The Haunch of Venison page 95 Epitaph on Thomas Parnell page 100 The Clown's Reply page 100 Epitaph on Edward Purdon page 100 Epilogue for Lee Lewes page 101 Epilogue written for She Stoops to Conquer (1) page 103 Epilogue written for She Stoops to Conquer (2) page 108 The Captivity. An Oratorio Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner page 128 Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury page 130 Vida's Game of Chess page 135 NOTES Introduction to the Notes page 159 Editions of the Poems page 161 The Traveller page 162 The Deserted Village page 177 Prologue of Laberius page 190 On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind with Lightning page 192 The Gift page 193 The Logicians Refuted page 194 A Sonnet page 196 Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec page 196 An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize page 197 Description of an Author's Bedchamber page 199 On seeing Mrs. *** perform in the Character of **** page 202 On the Death of the Right Hon. *** page 202 An Epigram page 203 To G. C. and R. L. page 203 Translation of a South American Ode page 203 The Double Transformation page 203 A New Simile page 205 Edwin and Angelina page 206 Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog page 212 Song (from The Vicar of Wakefield) page 213 Epilogue (The Good Natur'd Man) page 214 Epilogue (The Sister) page 215 Prologue (Zobeide) page 216 Threnodia Augustalis page 218 Song (from She Stoops to Conquer) page 219

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      Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) page 220 Retaliation page 222 Song intended for She Stoops to Conquer page 235 Translation page 236 The Haunch of Venison page 236 Epitaph on Thomas Parnell page 243 The Clown's Reply page 244 Epitaph on Edward Purdon page 244 Epilogue for Lee Lewes's Benefit page 245 Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) (1) page 246 Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) (2) page 248 The Captivity page 249 Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner page 250 Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury page 252 Vida's Game of Chess page 255 APPENDIXES Portraits of Goldsmith page 259 Descriptions of Newell's Views of Lissoy, etc. page 262 The Epithet 'Sentimental' page 264 Fragments of Translations, etc., by Goldsmith page 266 Goldsmith on Poetry under Anne and George the First page 268 Criticisms from Goldsmith's Beauties of English Poesy page 270

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      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

       OLIVER GOLDSMITH. From Joseph Marchi's mezzotint of 1770 after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. PANE OF GLASS with Goldsmith's autograph signature, dated March, 1746, now at Trinity College, Dublin. VIGNETTE TO THE TRAVELLER. Drawn by Samuel Wale, and engraved by Charles Grignion. HEADPIECE TO THE TRAVELLER. Engraved on wood by Charlton Nesbit for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795. THE TRAVELLER. From a design by Richard Westall, R. A., engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795. VIGNETTE TO THE DESERTED VILLAGE, 1770. Drawn and engraved by Isaac Taylor. HEADPIECE TO THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Engraved on wood by Charlton Nesbit for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795. THE WATER-CRESS GATHERER. Drawn and engraved on wood by John Bewick for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795. {This picture is unavailable.] THE DEPARTURE. Drawn by Robert Johnson, and engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick for Bulmer's Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795. EDWIN AND ANGELINA. From an original washed drawing made by Thomas Stothard, R.A., for Aikin's Goldsmith's Poetical Works, 1805. PORTRAIT OF GOLDSMITH, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. From an etching by James Basire on the title-page of Retaliation, 1774. SONG FROM THE CAPTIVITY. Facsimile of Goldsmith's writing and signature, from Prior's Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B., 1837, ii, frontispiece. GREEN ARBOUR COURT, OLD BAILEY. From an engraving in the European Magazine for January, 1803.

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      KILKENNY WEST CHURCH. From an aquatint by S. Alken of a sketch by R. H. Newell (Goldsmith's Poetical Works, 1811). HAWTHORN TREE. From the same. SOUTH VIEW FROM GOLDSMITH'S MOUNT. From the same … To face p. 183. [This picture is unavailable.] THE SCHOOL HOUSE. From the same. PORTRAIT OF GOLDSMITH. Drawn by Henry William Bunbury and etched by James Bretherton. From the Haunch of Venison, 1776. PORTRAIT OF GOLDSMITH. From a silhouette by Ozias Humphry, R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery. LISSOY (OR LISHOY) MILL. From an aquatint by S. Alken of a sketch by R. H. Newell (Goldsmith's Poetical Works, 1811). THE PARSONAGE. From the same.