Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E750001-001

The Deserted Village

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin

Funded by University College, Cork, Ireland

1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Proof corrections by Donnchadh Ó Corráin

Extent of text: 4545 words

Publication

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E750001-001

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Available from the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.

Notes

This is the Goldsmith's fourth and final version of the text (Dobson, 177).

Sources

Select bibliography
1. H. J. Bell, 'The Deserted Village, and Goldsmith's Social Doctrines', Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 59 (1944), 747–772.
2. John Forster, The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith (1848).
3. Arthur Friedman (ed), Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966).
4. Robert Hopkins, The True Genius of Oliver Goldsmith (1969).
5. Roger Lonsdale (ed), The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (1969).
6. Earl Miner, 'The Making of the Deserted Village', Huntington Library Quarterly 22 (1958–9), 125–141.
7. James Prior, The Life of Oliver Goldsmith (1837).
8. Ricardo Quintana, Oliver Goldsmith: a Georgian Study (1967). Contains a full bibliography.
9. G. S. Rousseau (ed), Goldsmith: the Critical Heritage (1974).
10. Ralph M. Wardle, Oliver Goldsmith (1957). The standard biography.
11. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (1973).

The edition used in the digital edition.
1. Austin Dobson, Deserted Village in The complete poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith with introduction and notes, Ed. Austin Dobson. , London, Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press (1906) page 23–37

Encoding

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CELT

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Only the editor's text is retained. The extensive notes (pp. 177–190) are not retained.

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Profile Description

Created: By Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774). (1770-05-26)

Use of language

Language: [EN] Text is in Modern English.

Revision History

• (2011-01-17)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• New wordcount made, conversion script run.
• (2008-09-24)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Keywords added; file validated.
• (2005-08-25)

  Julianne Nyhan (ed.)

• Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion
• (2005-08-08T12:22:34+0100)

  Peter Flynn (conversion)

• Converted to XML
• (1997-09-17)

  Margaret Lantry (ed.)

• Header modified; bibliography extended; text parsed using NSGMLS and normalized using SGMLNORM.
• (1997-05-20)

  Peter Flynn (ed.)

• HTML file generated using OmniMark.
• (1997-05-20)

  Mavis Cournane (ed.)

• Text parsed using SGMLS.
• (1996-09-14)

  Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.)

• Header constructed, text proofed, structural mark-up checked and verified.
• (1996-09-10)

  Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.)

• Text captured by scanning, and structural mark-up added.