17th & 18th Century Literature Questions: In The Deserted Village , the villagers are driven from their homes because the Enclosure Acts have enabled a wealthy landowner to buy the public property.

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In that same poem, the poet says that the villagers will either go to America or to crowded, corrupted charity homes.

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Goldsmith wrote a novel entitled The Vicar of Wakefield , about a parson's family.

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At the end of The Deserted Village , Poetry leaves with the rural virtues and the displaced villagers because many of the people in England are too corrupted by wealth to appreciate art.

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Oliver Goldsmith believed that extreme wealth is destructive.

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