 In the 1760s Goldsmith witnessed the demolition of an ancient village and destruction of its farms to clear land to become a wealthy man's garden.His poem "The Deserted Village", published in 1770, expresses a fear that the destruction of villages and the conversion of land from productive agriculture to ornamental landscape gardens would ruin the peasantry.Goldsmith is also thought to have written the classic children's tale "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"

• "The Grumbler