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Prepared by Amy E Zelmer >
Barb Grow

and Derek Thompson >
THE COMPLETE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
'EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES'
BY
AUSTIN DOBSON
HON. LL.D. EDIN.
PREFATORY NOTE
THIS volume is a reprint, extended and revised, of the 'Selected Poems'

of Goldsmith issued by the Clarendon Press in 1887. It is 'extended,'
because it now contains the whole of Goldsmith's poetry: it is 'revised'
because, besides the supplementary text, a good deal has been added in
the way of annotation and illustration. In other words, the book has
been substantially enlarged. Of the new editorial material, the bulk has
been collected at odd times during the last twenty years; but fresh
Goldsmith facts are growing rare. I hope I have acknowledged
obligation wherever it has been incurred; I trust also, for the sake of
those who come after me, that something of my own will be found to
have been contributed to the literature of the subject.
AUSTIN DOBSON.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chronology of Goldsmith's Life and
Poems
POEMS
The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society
The Deserted
Village
Prologue of Laberius
On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind
with Lightning
The Gift. To Iris, in Bow Street
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. Addressed to the Gentlemen reflected on
in 'The Rosciad', a Poem, by the Author
To G. C. and