Select Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

1887. Anglo-Irish author who achieved some success as a miscellaneous contributor to periodicals and as the author of Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe. But it was not until The Citizen of the World, a series of whimsical and satirical essays, that he was recognized as an able man of letters. His fame grew with The Traveler, a philosophic poem, and the nostalgic pastoral The Deserted Village, which are contained in this volume.Goldsmith, Oliver is the author of 'Select Poems of Oliver Goldsmith', published 2007 under ISBN 9780548020258 and ISBN 0548020256.