TY - ABST T1 - The Deserted Village, A Poem Y1 - 1770 A1 - Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

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.

PB - W. Griffin CY - London N1 -

There were five further editions in 1770, a 7th ed. in 1772 and an 8th ed. in 1774. Rpt. 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 “Introduction” (271-81).

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