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Persian Eclogues
Over 30 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1742, 1757, 1760, 1763, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1781, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1790, 1794. 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800). [Also titled <u>Oriental Eclogues</u>. Frequently anthologized. Published in <u>The Works of the English Poets</u>.]<br>
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See <u>Persian Eclogues. Written Originally for the Entertainment of the Ladies of Tauris. And Now First Translated, &c.</u> (London: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, 1742).  &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T95926">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Roger Lonsdale's <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u> (London and New York: Longman and Norton, 1972).