Political radicals, such as Thomas Spence and John Thelwall quoted The Deserted Village in their own works, as did a number of other writers.
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In Ireland the village described in the poem is thought to be Glasson village, near Athlone.
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The lack of business in 1979 compelled Welborn Ayres to equate Ashland with "The Deserted Village" of the Oliver Goldsmith poem.
The theme of the inscription on the plinth of the statue (alluding to the poet's lament for the passing of 'Sweet Auburn', Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village) may also be seen in connection with what Burrow mentions in the later book The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914: '...the growth of great cities with mass population....
Works using his wood engraving technique, for which he became well known, include the engravings for Oliver Goldsmith's Traveller and The Deserted Village, for Thomas Parnell's Hermit, and for William Somervile's Chase.
The family name, ultimately derived from Folleville in the French region of Picardy, is attached to several other sites in Leicestershire, such as the deserted village of Newbolt Folville.
Various studies exist showing he continued to draw while in the army and a fellow soldier, years later in a letter to the artist’s widow, described mural decorations he painted for Christmas 1918 on the wall of a warehouse being used as a mess-hall in the deserted village of Auberchicourt, near Douai, using dry colours found in a builder’s yard mixed with ‘the glutinous substance you get from oatmeal porridge’.
A few years later, he along with approximately 90 Baster families relocated to the deserted village of Rehoboth.
“In the morning this attractive village is bordered on the east parish of Römhild, of which it is an hour away, at lunchtime Irmelshausen, in the evening Rothausen and the deserted village Eichelbrunn and midnight at the Mönchshof..."