CONTENTS

[Introduction]
[Chronology of Goldsmith’s Life and Poems]
POEMS
[Descriptive Poems]
[The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society]
[The Deserted Village]
[Lyrical and Miscellaneous Pieces]
[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 R. L.]
[Translation of a South American Ode]
[The Double Transformation. A Tale]
[A New Simile, in the Manner of Swift]
[Edwin and Angelina]
[Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog]
[Song (‘When Lovely Woman,’ etc.)]
[Epilogue to The Good Natur’d Man]
[Epilogue to The Sister]
[Prologue to Zobeide]
[Threnodia Augustalis:] Sacred to the Memory of Her Late Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales
[Song (‘Let school-masters,’ etc.)]
[Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer]
[Retaliation]
[Song (‘Ah, me! when shall I marry me?’)]
[Translation (‘Chaste are their instincts’)]
[The Haunch of Venison]
[Epitaph on Thomas Parnell]
[The Clown’s Reply]
[Epitaph on Edward Purdon]
[Epilogue for Lee Lewes]
[Epilogue written for She Stoops to Conquer (1)]
[Epilogue written for She Stoops to Conquer (2)]
[The Captivity. An Oratorio]
[Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner]
[Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury]
[Vida’s Game of Chess]
NOTES
[Introduction to the Notes]
[Editions of the Poems]
[The Traveller]
[The Deserted Village]
[Prologue of Laberius]
[On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind with Lightning]
[The Gift]
[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]
[To G. C. and R. L.]
[Translation of a South American Ode]
[The Double Transformation]
[A New Simile]
[Edwin and Angelina]
[Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog]
[Song (from The Vicar of Wakefield)]
[Epilogue (The Good Natur’d Man)]
[Epilogue (The Sister)]
[Prologue (Zobeide)]
[Threnodia Augustalis]
[Song (from She Stoops to Conquer)]
[Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer)]
[Retaliation]
[Song intended for She Stoops to Conquer]
[Translation]
[The Haunch of Venison]
[Epitaph on Thomas Parnell]
[The Clown’s Reply]
[Epitaph on Edward Purdon]
[Epilogue for Lee Lewes’s Benefit]
[Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) (1)]
[Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) (2)]
[The Captivity]
[Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner]
[Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury]
[Vida’s Game of Chess]
[APPENDIXES]
[Portraits of Goldsmith]
[Descriptions of Newell’s Views of Lissoy, etc.]
[The Epithet ‘Sentimental’]
[Fragments of Translations, etc., by Goldsmith]
[Goldsmith on Poetry under Anne and George the First]
[Criticisms from Goldsmith’s Beauties of English Poesy]