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This collection assembles lyrical, narrative, and didactic poems that mix pastoral description, social observation, and satirical wit. Works move between reflective meditations on rural life and change, concise moral essays in verse, and light comic sketches, employing classical allusion, clear narrative, and a conversational voice. Themes include the displacement of village communities, the absurdities of fashion and ambition, and sympathy for ordinary experience, balanced by formal variety and humor. The edition is accompanied by an editorial preface and biographical notes that contextualize the poems and clarify language and references.

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Title: The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Editor: Robert Aris Willmott

Illustrator: Edmund Evans

Myles Birket Foster

Henry Noel Humphreys

Release date: August 17, 2015 [eBook #49723]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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THE POEMS
OF
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

THE
POEMS
OF
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

THE POEMS
OF
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

EDITED BY
ROBERT ARIS WILLMOTT,

AUTHOR OF THE “PLEASURES OF LITERATURE,” “SUMMER TIME IN THE COUNTRY,”
ETC., ETC.

A NEW EDITION,
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
BIRKET FOSTER AND H. N. HUMPHREYS,
PRINTED IN COLOURS BY EDMUND EVANS.

LONDON AND NEW YORK
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS.
1877.

EDMUND EVANS
ENGRAVER & PRINTER