The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

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Author

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774

Credits

Amy E Zelmer, Barb Grow, Derek Thompson and David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Literature -- Collections

Category

Text

eBook-No.

3545

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3545

Release Date

November 1, 2002

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.OXFORD EDITION — THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH — PREFATORY NOTE — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
2. 2.INTRODUCTION — CHRONOLOGY OF GOLDSMITH’S LIFE AND POEMS.
3. 3.DESCRIPTIVE POEMS
4. 4.THE DESERTED VILLAGE — THE DESERTED VILLAGE
5. 5.LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES
6. 6.LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES — PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS A ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CAESAR FORCED UPON THE STAGE P RESERVED BY M ACROBIUS. — ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND WITH LIGHTNING — THE GIFT — THE LOGICIANS REFUTED — A SONNET — STANZAS — AN ELEGY ON THAT GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE — DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR’S BEDCHAMBER — ON SEEING MRS. ** PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF **** — OF THE DEATH OF THE LEFT HON. *** — AN EPIGRAM ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN REFLECTED ON IN THE ROSCIAD, A POEM, BY THE AUTHOR — TO G. C. AND R. L. — TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE — THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION A TALE — A NEW SIMILE IN THE MANNER OF SWIFT — EDWIN AND ANGELINA A BALLAD — ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG — SONG FROM ‘THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD’ — EPILOGUE TO ‘THE GOOD NATUR’D MAN’ — EPILOGUE TO ‘THE SISTER’ — PROLOGUE TO ‘ZOBEIDE’ — THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: — SONG FROM ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER’ — EPILOGUE TO ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER’ — RETALIATION A POEM — SONG INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SUNG IN ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER’ — TRANSLATION — THE HAUNCH OF VENISON A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE — EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL — THE CLOWN’S REPLY — EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON — EPILOGUE FOR MR. LEE LEWES — EPILOGUE INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER’ — EPILOGUE INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER’
7. 7.THE CAPTIVITY — VERSES IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER AT DR. BAKER’S. ‘This is a poem! This is a copy of verses!’ — LETTER IN PROSE AND VERSE TO MRS. BUNBURY — VIDA’S GAME OF CHESS TRANSLATED
8. 8.NOTES — INTRODUCTION — EDITIONS OF THE POEMS. — THE TRAVELLER. — THE DESERTED VILLAGE. — PROLOGUE OF LABERIUS. — ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND WITH LIGHTNING. — THE GIFT. — THE LOGICIANS REFUTED. — A SONNET. — STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC. — AN ELEGY ON MRS. MARY BLAIZE. — DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR’S BEDCHAMBER. — ON SEEING MRS. ** PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF ****. — ON 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 ANGELINA. — AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG. — SONG FROM ‘THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.’ — EPILOGUE TO ‘THE GOOD NATUR’D MAN.’ — EPILOGUE TO ‘THE SISTER.’ — PROLOGUE TO ‘ZOBEIDE.’ — THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS. — SONG FROM ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.’ — EPILOGUE TO ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.’ — RETALIATION. — SONG FOR ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.’ — TRANSLATION. — THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. — EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL. — THE CLOWN’S REPLY. — EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON. — EPILOGUE FOR LEE LEWES’S BENEFIT. — EPILOGUE INTENDED FOR ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.’ — EPILOGUE INTENDED FOR ‘SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.’ — THE CAPTIVITY. — VERSES IN REPLY TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER. — LETTER IN PROSE AND VERSE TO MRS. BUNBURY. — VIDA’S GAME OF CHESS.
9. 9.APPENDIXES — APPENDIX A — APPENDIX B — APPENDIX C — APPENDIX D — APPENDIX E — APPENDIX F

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