No collected edition of Goldsmith’s poetical works appeared until after his death. But, in 1775, W. Griffin, who had published the _Essays_ of ten years earlier, issued a volume entitled _The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B., containing all his Essays and Poems_. The ‘poems’ however were confined to ‘The Traveller,’ ‘The Deserted Village,’ ‘Edwin and Angelina,’ ‘The Double Transformation,’ ‘A New Simile,’ and ‘Retaliation,’—an obviously imperfect harvesting. In the following year G. Kearsly printed an eighth edition of _Retaliation_, with which he included ‘The Hermit’ (‘Edwin and Angelina’), ‘The Gift,’ ‘Madam Blaize,’ and the epilogues to _The Sister_ and _She stoops to Conquer_;* while to an edition of _The Haunch of Venison_, also put forth in 1776, he added the ‘Epitaph on Parnell’ and two songs from the oratorio of _The Captivity_. The next collection appeared in a volume of _Poems and Plays_ published at Dublin in 1777, where it was preceded by a ‘Life,’ written by W. Glover, one of Goldsmith’s ‘Irish clients.’ Then, in 1780, came vol. i of T. Evans’s _ Poetical and Dramatic Works, etc., now first collected_, also having a ‘Memoir,’ and certainly fuller than anything which had gone before. Next followed the long-deferred _Miscellaneous Works,_ etc., of 1801, in four volumes, vol. ii of which comprised the plays and poems. Prefixed to this edition is the important biographical sketch, compiled under the direction of Bishop Percy, and usually described as the _Percy Memoir_, by which title it is referred to in the ensuing notes. The next memorable edition was that edited for the Aldine Series in 1831, by the Rev. John Mitford. Prior and Wright’s edition in vol. iv of the _Miscellaneous Works_, etc., of 1837, comes after this; then Bolton Corney’s excellent _Poetical Works_ of 1845; and vol. i of Peter Cunningham’s _Works_, etc. of 1854. There are other issues of the poems, the latest of which is to be found in vol. ii (1885) of the complete _Works_, in five volumes, edited for Messrs. George Bell and Sons by J. W. M. Gibbs. * Some copies of this are dated 1777, and contain _The Haunch of Venison_ and a few minor pieces.