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52-663: Another important junction on the line is Auburndale Interlocking, just west of Auburndale . Here, the line connects with the Auburndale Subdivision , CSX's only line to South Florida and the Miami area. Freight trains bound for Miami from the rest of the country generally come off the Vitis Subdivision and run the Carters Subdivision to reach Miami. The McDonald Connection track connects

104-517: A Prospect of Society (1764), which also condemned the corrupting influence of extreme wealth. Goldsmith also set out his ideas about rural depopulation in an essay entitled "The Revolution in Low Life", published in Lloyd's Evening Post in 1762. There is no single place which has been identified as the village of the poem's title, called Auburn in the poem. Although some contend that the location of

156-474: A depiction of an idealised past through which current moral decline can be highlighted. The Deserted Village is, in this interpretation, "depoliticised"—an act that was reinforced by nineteenth-century interpretations produced by Thomas Babington Macaulay and two of Goldsmith's biographers. The poem also generated other responses in verse. While Crabbe emphasised the misery and poverty of rural life, Robert Bloomfield 's The Farmer's Boy (1800) returned to

208-479: A dining society called The Club . Reynolds had helped to promote Goldsmith's play The Good-Natur'd Man to the actor and theatre manager David Garrick , and had facilitated Goldsmith's appointment as the historian of the Royal Academy . The Deserted Village condemns rural depopulation and the indulgence of the rich. This was a subject that Goldsmith had addressed in his earlier poem The Traveller; or

260-406: A direct attack on the usurpation of agricultural land by the wealthy: The poem later condemns the luxury and corruption of the city, and describes the fate of a country girl who moved there: Goldsmith then states that the residents of Auburn have not moved to the city, but have emigrated overseas. He describes these foreign lands as follows: The poem mentions "wild Altama", perhaps a reference to

312-478: A female householder with no husband present, and 27.1% were non-families. 21.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.02. In 2000, in the city, the population was spread out, with 27.2% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

364-488: A number of other writers. Secondly, readers and critics ignored the political content of the poem, focussing instead on Goldsmith's idyllic descriptions of Auburn. This second type of reading was the most common. 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. With

416-694: A scene depicting a quotation from the poem carved into a rock. The painter Francis Wheatley submitted two paintings to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1800, both of which depicted scenes from The Deserted Village . The paintings were copied by an engraver, and appeared in an edition of Goldsmith's poetry published in the same year by F. J. du Roveray. Alfred Lutz has argued that the poem generated two different types of reception. Firstly, some readers admired Goldsmith's economic and social arguments, or at least reflected upon them in their own writings. Political radicals, such as Thomas Spence and John Thelwall quoted The Deserted Village in their own works, as did

468-489: A set of political and social ideas which were "made up largely of elements absorbed in Ireland". The poem opens with a description of a village named Auburn, written in the past tense. The poem then moves on to describe the village in its current state, reporting that it has been abandoned by its residents with its buildings ruined. After nostalgic descriptions of Auburn's parson, schoolmaster and alehouse, Goldsmith makes

520-496: A volume entitled The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith . In the following year, Bewick and his brother John Bewick (1760-1795) again engraved illustrations for a volume entitled Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell . The magnitude of this project meant that Bewick enlisted several collaborators to produce the illustrations. Bewick also depicted scenes from The Deserted Village which appeared in other places. An engraving of his edition of Fables of Aesop , published in 1818, features

572-532: A waiting list. Auburndale High School and Polk Pre-Collegiate Academy (PPCA) are the only high schools in Auburndale, although nearby Tenoroc High School serves students in both Auburndale and Lakeland. Southern Technical College operates a campus in Auburndale. Nearby in Lakeland, Florida there is the main campus Florida Polytechnic University . The Deserted Village The Deserted Village

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624-615: Is a city in Polk County, Florida , United States. It is part of the Lakeland-Winter Haven, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The population was 15,616 at the 2020 census . Auburndale was founded in 1880 by Frank Fuller, who was seeking refuge from chilly winters in the Northeast United States. The place was originally named Sanatoria, from a hotel located there. When the railroad arrived in

676-446: Is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary , and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth. The poem is written in heroic couplets , and describes the decline of a village and the emigration of many of its residents to America. In the poem, Goldsmith criticises rural depopulation, the moral corruption found in towns, consumerism, enclosure , landscape gardening, avarice, and

728-436: Is an example of georgic and pastoral poetry. The poem is also an example of Augustan verse. In its use of a balanced account of Auburn in its inhabited and deserted states, and in its employment of an authorly persona within the poem, it conforms to contemporary neoclassical conventions. Goldsmith was educated at Trinity College, Dublin , and had read Latin poetry since childhood. He would, therefore, have been aware of

780-490: Is clearly the "arch-villain of the piece", and it is the riches that a small minority have accumulated from international trade that allow rural people to be displaced from their lands so that country estates can be created. Furthermore, Alfred Lutz has commented that Goldsmith's attacks on landscape gardening have a wider political significance, because enclosure's defenders sometimes compared enclosed fields to gardens. Mitchell also argues that criticism which focuses solely on

832-617: Is located within the Central Florida Highlands area of the Atlantic coastal plain with a terrain consisting of flatland interspersed with gently rolling hills. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 9.3 square miles (24 km ), of which 5.2 square miles (13 km ) is land and 4.1 square miles (11 km ) (43.87%) is water. Auburndale is located in

884-930: Is the 94th largest in the country. The Auburndale Public Library is a member of the Polk County Library Cooperative. The library is located at 100 West Bridgers Avenue Auburndale, Florida 33823. The library offers a number of services to all Polk County Residents, including 24/7 card catalog access. The public schools in Auburndale are operated by the Polk County School Board . There are five elementary schools, Berkley Elementary (a charter school ), Auburndale Central Elementary, Lena Vista Elementary, Boswell Elementary and Caldwell Elementary, which feed into Stambaugh Middle School. Students from Berkley Elementary are admitted into Berkley Accelerated Middle School (another charter school), while other students wishing to apply are put on

936-420: The 2010 United States census , there were 13,507 people, 4,671 households, and 3,327 families residing in the city. As of the census of 2000, there were 11,032 people, 4,119 households, and 3,002 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,113.5 inhabitants per square mile (816.0/km ). There were 4,547 housing units at an average density of 871.1 per square mile (336.3/km ). The racial makeup of

988-451: The enclosure of common land, the creation of landscape gardens and the pursuit of excessive wealth. In Goldsmith's vision, wealth does not necessarily bring either prosperity or happiness. Indeed, it can be dangerous to the maintenance of British liberties and displaces traditional community. In making this argument, some have regarded Goldsmith not as a political radical, but as a socially-concerned "conservative". Indeed, his emphasis on

1040-628: The poverty line , including 28.3% of those under age 18 and 7.6% of those age 65 or over. The important freeways and highways in the Auburndale area are: Auburndale is served by Winter Haven Area Transit 's #12 & #50 routes. Railroads are also important to Auburndale. The city contains two major railroad lines. The first being the CSX Carters Subdivision , and the other being the CSX Auburndale Subdivision . Amtrak uses both lines but does not stop in

1092-543: The " Altamaha River " in Georgia , an American colony founded by James Oglethorpe to receive paupers and criminals from Britain. As the poem nears its end, Goldsmith gives a warning, before reporting that even Poetry herself has fled abroad: The poem ends with the hope that Poetry can help those who have been exiled: The poem has 430 lines, divided into heroic couplets . This form features an "AABBCC..." rhyme scheme, with ten-syllable lines written in iambic pentameter . It

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1144-448: The 1880s, the town was renamed Auburndale at the suggestion of settlers from Auburndale, Massachusetts . The New England town had been named from the opening line of the poem " The Deserted Village " by Oliver Goldsmith. Early on, the city became a chosen destination for a number of America's most prominent artists. The city is located 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Tampa and 59 miles (95 km) southwest of Orlando. Auburndale

1196-463: The Auburn of Goldsmith's The Deserted Village , see J. Stirling Coyne and N.P. Willis 's The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland published c. 1841 (Vol. 1, Chap. 4). Others speculate merely that "the description may have been influenced by Goldsmith's memory of his childhood in rural Ireland, and his travels around England." While personal references in the poem give the impression of referring to

1248-675: The Carters Subdivision from the south with the Auburndale Subdivision and the Can Yard Lead connects it in the north direction. Much of the freight service on the Carters Subdivision is to and from the Miami area and customers down the Auburndale Subdivision . Local freight also runs on the line with a number of customers located on the Park Spur just east of Lakeland. Local freight bound for Taft Yard and customers on

1300-759: The Carters Subdivision's north end was at Auburndale Interlocking and the A Line north of Auburndale Interlocking was part of the Sanford Subdivision . After CSX sold the A Line north of Poinciana to the Florida Department of Transportation to create the Central Florida Rail Corridor, the Sanford Subdivision was truncated at Deland and the Carters Subdivision designation was extended up the A Line to Poinciana. Auburndale, Florida Auburndale

1352-456: The Central Florida Rail Corridor in the Orlando area also run the line. No through freight to northern Florida runs on the Central Florida Rail Corridor. The Carters Subdivision also hosts Amtrak 's Silver Meteor and Silver Star trains daily. The Silver Star trains run the entire route to reach Tampa, while both trains run to Auburndale Interlocking to turn towards Miami. In addition to

1404-807: The United States (1942) and Ill Fares the Land (2010) by Tony Judt . A single line from The Deserted Village is inscribed on the plinth of a statue of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Saxon Dress. The marble original with plinth is in the Royal Collection, and a copy of the sculpture is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. The words on the plinth are "ALLURED TO BRIGHTER WORLDS, AND LED THE WAY". In Ireland

1456-410: The city was 81.13% White , 12.26% African American , 0.26% Native American , 0.88% Asian , 0.05% Pacific Islander , 3.46% from other races , and 1.96% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.10% of the population. In 2000, there were 4,119 households, out of which 35.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.1% were married couples living together, 15.7% had

1508-521: The city. Two airports serve Auburndale, both of which are located in Winter Haven , east of the city. The Winter Haven Regional Airport along US 92 and the adjacent Jack Browns Seaplane Base located on the northeast shores of Lake Jessie. Auburndale is part of the Tampa / St. Pete television market, the 13th largest in the country and part of the local Lakeland/Winter Haven radio market, which

1560-564: The corrupting effects of luxury fit closely with discourses associated with Tory writers of the time. Sebastian Mitchell has argued that Goldsmith employs "deliberately precise obscurity" in the poem, concealing the reason for the village's demise. While this may detract from the authority of Goldsmith's social critique, it also allows readers to project their own concerns onto the poem. Bell comments that while Goldsmith criticises enclosure in an indirect manner, he does not attribute Auburn's decline to it. However, Bell also argues that commerce

1612-515: The criticisms made by classical writers such as Juvenal and Pliny of the displacement of the rural poor by the rich. Furthermore, in the eighteenth century the decline of the Roman Empire was attributed to the growth of luxury and pride in Rome. Goldsmith, in emphasising the danger that England faced from its increase in wealth, was drawing an obvious parallel. Ricardo Quintana has argued that

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1664-471: The first edition featured an engraving by Isaac Taylor . The illustration depicts the old woman mentioned in the poem, standing in front of the deserted village. In the background a ship departs, presumably for America. 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. In 1794, Bewick produced woodcuts to illustrate

1716-408: The humid subtropical zone, as designated by ( Köppen climate classification : Cfa ). The city commission is made up of five commissioners elected from single-member districts. The mayor is elected from the commissioners by the voters. The city budget is $ 69 million. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 15,616 people, 5,141 households, and 3,701 families residing in the city. As of

1768-423: The land" warning, have appeared in a number of other contexts. Goldsmith grew up in the hamlet of Lissoy in Ireland. In the 1760s, he travelled extensively around England, visiting many small settlements at a time when the enclosure movement was at its height. The poem is dedicated to the artist Sir Joshua Reynolds , with whom Goldsmith was a close friend and founding member, along with Samuel Johnson , of

1820-511: The main line, there are also some notable spur lines along the Carters Subdivision. The CH Spur begins at the main line just east of Lakeland station and runs south through an industrial area along US 98 to Eaton Park . Park Spur begins at the main line just west of Carters and runs north to serve the McIntosh Power Plant. Another spur also runs through Haines City. The Carters Subdivision first began service in 1884 and

1872-469: The poem takes Virgil 's first Eclogue as its model. Quintana has also highlighted the way that the poem presents a series of contrasts. In the early parts of the poem, old "Sweet Auburn" and the deserted village are contrasted. Later in the poem, Quintana argues, Goldsmith places nature and art, frugality and luxury, "national vigor and national corruption", and the country and the city, in opposition. The Deserted Village condemns rural depopulation,

1924-522: The poem's deserted village is unknown, others note that Auburn village close to Athlone is the likely subject of Goldsmith's poem. Travel-guide authors Samuel Carter Hall and Anna Hall write in their 1853 Hand-books for Ireland: The West and Connamara that the British tourist should disembark from their train at Athlone's Moate Station and "make a pilgrimage to the renowned village of Auburn" located six miles from Moate Station (Hall & Hall, 1853, pp. 4–5). The Halls explain that although Goldsmith

1976-529: The poem's historical accuracy misses its wider commentary on late-eighteenth-century social issues, particularly the question of "urban estrangement". The poem was completed in 1769, and was first published in May 1770. Appearing in quarto format, five further editions were released in the same year. It was published in eleven editions in the United States by the end of the century. The title page of

2028-474: The production of several notable cultural works. In 1825, Goldsmith's great-nephew—also called Oliver Goldsmith —wrote a response to his relative's poem, entitled The Rising Village . The first half of line 51 from the poem ("Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey") has provided a title to several books and films, including Carey McWilliams's Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in

2080-529: 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. In the United States, a different reading occurred—while the English Auburn may have been deserted, the new world offered opportunities for the recreation of Goldsmith's idyll. Early critics also questioned

2132-417: The pursuit of wealth from international trade. The poem employs, in the words of one critic, "deliberately precise obscurity", and does not reveal the reason why the village has been deserted. The poem was very popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also provoked critical responses, including from other poets such as George Crabbe . References to the poem, and particularly its ominous "Ill fares

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2184-520: The theme of the rural idyll, but without Goldsmith or Crabbe's political criticism. The Deserted Village was a major influence on Bloomfield, as was Alexander Pope's pastoral poetry. The poem's reception in the Victorian era was largely positive. The Irish playwright Edmund Falconer (c. 1814–1879) adapted the work to suit as opera libretto for the three-act opera of the same name (1880) by John William Glover (1815–1899). The poem has influenced

2236-613: The validity of Goldsmith's argument about rural depopulation and decline. In 1770, for instance, Thomas Comber argued that the population of rural England was not decreasing, and that enclosure could increase farmers' demand for labourers. An early review in The Critical Review also defended the value of England's increase in wealth, and questioned whether rural depopulation had become an important problem. Modern economic historians have supported Comber's comments about depopulation. George Crabbe 's poem The Village (1783)

2288-410: The village described in the poem is thought to be Glasson village , near Athlone. Signage around the village points out the association with Oliver Goldsmith. In American popular culture, and specifically that of Alabama , the poem's first line "Sweet Auburn, Loveliest village of the plain" is the basis for the term "Auburn Plainsman/Plainsmen" which is used to refer to an Auburn University student and

2340-462: The village in which Goldsmith grew up, the poem has also been associated with Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire. In "The Revolution in Low Life", Goldsmith had condemned the destruction of a village within 50 miles (80 km) of London in order to construct a fashionable landscape garden. Goldsmith reported that he had personally witnessed this scene in 1761. In the same year, Nuneham Courtenay

2392-424: The village, and she is depicted on the title page of the first edition. The position of both villages, on a hill near a river, was similar, and both had parsons who enjoyed gardening. However, Robert Seitz has argued that while "The Revolution in Low Life" greatly strengthens the case for identifying the deserted village as English, Goldsmith saw in this unnamed village "only what he wished to see", using it to fit

2444-417: Was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.6 males. In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $ 34,184, and the median income for a family was $ 36,303. Males had a median income of $ 30,468 versus $ 21,232 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 15,510. About 13.4% of families and 17.3% of the population were below

2496-578: Was born in the village of Pallas (also known as Pallice or Pallasmore), his father was soon appointed to the Kilkenny-West Rectory, and he therefore moved his family (circa 1730) to the village of Auburn, also known as Lissoy and, to the locals, as "The Pigeons" (ibid.). Lissoy has "now and for nearly a century [been] known as Auburn" and is "so marked on the maps" (ibid.). For a similar claim regarding Auburn in County Westmeath as

2548-492: Was built as part of Henry B. Plant 's South Florida Railroad , which extended from Sanford to Tampa . Crews building the line from each end met up and completed the line just east of Lakeland at a location called Carter's Kill, which the Carters Subdivision is named for. The South Florida Railroad was absorbed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902, which became their main line. The CH Spur

2600-690: Was originally the south leg of South Florida Railroad's Pemberton Ferry Branch (the Vitis Subdivision was the north leg). The south leg would later be the northernmost segment of the Atlantic Coast Line's Lakeland–Fort Myers Line . The CH Spur was abandoned south of Eaton Park in the 1980s. The spur through Haines City was built by the Atlantic Coast Line in 1910 as the Haines City Branch , which at one point extended as far south as Everglades City . The Atlantic Coast Line became part of CSX Transportation by 1986. Prior to 2011,

2652-399: Was removed to make way for Nuneham Park . Its owner— Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt —moved the village 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away. There are a number of other concordances between Nuneham Courtenay's destruction and the contents of The Deserted Village . At Nuneham Courtenay, only an old woman was allowed to remain living in her house—Goldsmith's poem features an old woman who returns to

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2704-474: Was written as a riposte to what its author saw as the excessive sentimentality of Goldsmith's verse. In his poem, Crabbe describes the hardships of the rural poor, in a way that Goldsmith did not. Furthermore, Crabbe's poem encourages the interpretation of Goldsmith's bucolic depiction of old "sweet Auburn" in The Deserted Village as being a representation of the status quo in 1770, rather than

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