The poem begins with a description of a village called Auburn as a eutopia, but the wealthy landowner pushes the people off the land creating the deserted village.
}, year = {1770}, month = {01/1770}, publisher = {W. Griffin}, address = {London}, note = {There were five further editions in 1770, a 7th ed. in 1772 and an 8th ed. in 1774. Rpt. in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. Now First Collected with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. 2 Vols. (London: Ptd. by H. Goldney, 1780), 1: 53-74; and in\ Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Volume IV The Vicar of Wakefield Poems The Mystery Revealed. Ed. Arthur Friedman (Oxford, Eng.: The Clarendon Press, 1966), 283-304 with extensive footnotes and an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} (271-281).
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