The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith, edited by Robert Aris Willmott

About this eBook

Author

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774

Title

The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49723

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49723

Release Date

August 17, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE POEMS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH
2. 2.PREFACE — FOOTNOTES:
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.THE TRAVELLER — DEDICATION. TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH. — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.THE DESERTED VILLAGE — DEDICATION. TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.Untitled
8. 8.THE CAPTIVITY — ACT THE FIRST. — ACT THE SECOND. — ACT THE THIRD.
9. 9.FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.RETALIATION — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.Untitled
12. 12.THE GIFT TO IRIS
13. 13.THE LOGICIANS REFUTED — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG. 37 — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS — PART I. — PART II. — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.A NEW SIMILE — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND BY LIGHTNING
18. 18.STANZAS ON WOMAN
19. 19.TRANSLATION FROM SCARRÒN.
20. 20.STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC
21. 21.EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON. 42 — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE.
23. 23.EPITAPH ON THOMAS PARNELL.
24. 24.DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR’S BED-CHAMBER. — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.SONG FROM THE COMEDY OF “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.”
26. 26.ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO DINNER. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.A SONG
28. 28.FROM THE LATIN OF VIDA.
29. 29.Untitled
30. 30.ANSWER TO AN INVITATION TO PASS THE CHRISTMAS AT BARTON. 48 — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.ON SEEING A LADY PERFORM A CERTAIN CHARACTER.
32. 32.BIRDS — FOOTNOTES:
33. 33.A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS, A ROMAN KNIGHT.
34. 34.PROLOGUE TO “ZOBEIDE,” A TRAGEDY. 50 — FOOTNOTES:
35. 35.EPILOGUE TO “THE SISTER,” A COMEDY. 53 — FOOTNOTES:
36. 36.EPILOGUE INTENDED FOR “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.” — FOOTNOTES:
37. 37.ANOTHER INTENDED EPILOGUE — FOOTNOTES:
38. 38.EPILOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF “SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.” — FOOTNOTES:
39. 39.EPILOGUE TO “THE GOOD-NATURED MAN.” 57 — FOOTNOTES:
40. 40.ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. ——. 60 — FOOTNOTES:
41. 41.EPILOGUE WRITTEN FOR MR. CHARLES LEE LEWES. — FOOTNOTES:
42. 42.Transcriber’s Notes

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