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The Poetical Library; being a collection of the best modern English poems, chiefly didactic and descriptive. Volume 1 - 2. - Leipzig: Adam Friedrich Boehme 1786-1787.

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Enthält die Lehrgedichte "The English Garden" von William Mason, "An Essay on Painting: In two Epistles to Mr. Romney" von William Hayley, "The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius" von James Beattie, "The Library" von George Crabbe (Vol. 1), "An Essay on History; in three Epistles to Edw. Gibbon, Esq." von William Hayley, "The Art of Preserving Health" von John Armstrong, "The Concubine; a Poem in two Cantos. In the Manner of Spenser" von William Julius Mickle, "The Desolation of America" (anonym), die Verserzählung "The Peasant of Auburn; or The Emigrant" von T. Coombe (Vol. 2) sowie im Anhang beider Bände eine Reihe von "Miscellaneous Poems".
"The Peasant of Auburn" ist durch Goldsmiths "Deserted Village" (1770) angeregt (Fußnote Vol. 2, S. 311). Von Goldsmith auch die Versepistel "The haunch of Venison" (Vol. 2, S. 338-342).