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en-wikipedia-org-6454		The Deserted Village - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3897	424	73	Title page of Goldsmith's poetical works, with vignette by Thomas Bewick and couplet from The Deserted Village, 1794 The title page of the first edition featured an engraving by Isaac Taylor.[26] The illustration depicts the old woman mentioned in the poem, standing in front of the deserted village. Thomas Bewick and his school also produced several depictions of scenes from The Deserted Village, some of which occurred as illustrations of published versions of the poem or Goldsmith's works. Political radicals, such as Thomas Spence and John Thelwall quoted The Deserted Village in their own works, as did a number of other writers.[33] Secondly, readers and critics ignored the political content of the poem, focussing instead on Goldsmith's idyllic descriptions of Auburn.[34] This second type of reading was the most common.[35] Sebastian Mitchell states that some modern critics have seen the poem as appearing at a turning point in British culture, when public social and political opinions, and private emotional dispositions, diverged.[36] With the publication of texts such as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) shortly after The Deserted Village, political and economic discussion increasingly became the preserve not of poetry, but of a "scientific" version of political economy.[37]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6454.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6454.txt