The Poetry of Oliver Goldsmith
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The Poetry of Oliver Goldsmith, anthology:
Table Of Contents
THE TRAVELLER
THE DESERTED VILLAGE
LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES
ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND WITH LIGHTNING
THE GIFT
THE LOGICIANS REFUTED
A SONNET
STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OF
AN ELEGY ON THAT GLORY OF HER SEX,
DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER
ON SEEING MRS. ** PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF ****
OF THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. ***
AN EPIGRAM
TO G. C. AND R. L.
TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE
THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION
A NEW SIMILE
EDWIN AND ANGELA
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG
SONG
EPILOGUE TO 'THE GOOD NATUR'D MAN'
EPILOGUE TO 'THE SISTER'
PROLOGUE TO 'ZOBEIDE'
THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS:
SONG
EPILOGUE TO 'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER'
RETALIATION
POSTSCRIPT
SONG
TRANSLATION
THE HAUNCH OF VENISON
EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL
THE CLOWN'S REPLY
EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON
EPILOGUE FOR MR. LEE LEWES
EPILOGUE
EPILOGUE
THE CAPTIVITY
VERSES IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER AT DR. BAKER'S.
LETTER IN PROSE AND VERSE TO MRS. BUNBURY
VIDA'S GAME OF CHESS
NOTES.
Table Of Contents
THE TRAVELLER
THE DESERTED VILLAGE
LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES
ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND WITH LIGHTNING
THE GIFT
THE LOGICIANS REFUTED
A SONNET
STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OF
AN ELEGY ON THAT GLORY OF HER SEX,
DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER
ON SEEING MRS. ** PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF ****
OF THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. ***
AN EPIGRAM
TO G. C. AND R. L.
TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE
THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION
A NEW SIMILE
EDWIN AND ANGELA
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG
SONG
EPILOGUE TO 'THE GOOD NATUR'D MAN'
EPILOGUE TO 'THE SISTER'
PROLOGUE TO 'ZOBEIDE'
THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS:
SONG
EPILOGUE TO 'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER'
RETALIATION
POSTSCRIPT
SONG
TRANSLATION
THE HAUNCH OF VENISON
EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL
THE CLOWN'S REPLY
EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON
EPILOGUE FOR MR. LEE LEWES
EPILOGUE
EPILOGUE
THE CAPTIVITY
VERSES IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER AT DR. BAKER'S.
LETTER IN PROSE AND VERSE TO MRS. BUNBURY
VIDA'S GAME OF CHESS
NOTES.
About the author
As Samuel Johnson said in his famous epitaph on his Irish-born and educated friend, Goldsmith ornamented whatever he touched with his pen. A professional writer who died in his prime, Goldsmith wrote the best comedy of his day, She Stoops to Conquer (1773). Amongst a plethora of other fine works, he also wrote The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), which, despite major plot inconsistencies and the intrusion of poems, essays, tales, and lectures apparently foreign to its central concerns, remains one of the most engaging fictional works in English. One reason for its appeal is the character of the narrator, Dr. Primrose, who is at once a slightly absurd pedant, an impatient traditional father of teenagers, a Job-like figure heroically facing life's blows, and an alertly curious, helpful, loving person. Another reason is Goldsmith's own mixture of delight and amused condescension (analogous to, though not identical with, Laurence Sterne's in Tristram Shandy and Johnson's in Rasselas, both contemporaneous) as he looks at the vicar and his domestic group, fit representatives of a ludicrous but workable world. Never married and always facing financial problems, he died in London and was buried in Temple Churchyard.
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