And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,
Still first to fly where sensual joys invade;
Unfit in these degenerate times of shame
To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame;
Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried,
My shame in crowds, my solitary pride;
Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so;
Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel,
Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
        (The Deserted Village, A Poem, 407-416)

1. The Deserted Village, A Poem
2. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
3. Retaliation: A Poem
4. The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society (excerpt)
5. When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly

Biographical information

Given name: Oliver
Family name: Goldsmith
Birth date: 10 November 1730?
Death date: 4 April 1774
Nationality: Irish
Family relations
          father: Charles Goldsmith
          mother: Ann Goldsmith
          brother: Charles Goldsmith
          brother: Henry Goldsmith
          brother: John Goldsmith
          brother: Maurice Goldsmith
          sister: Jane Goldsmith
          sister: Margaret Goldsmith
          sister: Catherine Hodson
Language: English
Education
          Village school at Lissoy, Thomas Byrne
          Elphin school, Mr. Griffin
          Athlone: 1739
          School of Patrick Hughes, Edgeworthstown, Longford: 1741
          Trinity College (B.A.): 11 June 1744 to 1749
          Medical Society, Edinburgh: 1752
          Louvain (M.B.)
Literary period: Augustan
Occupation: Physician
Residences
          Bankside, Southwark
          Pallas, near Ballymahon, Longford: 10 November 1728
          Lissoy: 1730
          Edinburgh: 1752
          Fleet Street, London: 1760
          Islington: 1762
Illness: Smallpox
Buried at: Temple Church; monument in Westminster Abbey
First RPO edition: 1994-2001