The complete online text of An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith.

The Irish poet, dramatist, novelist, and essayist Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) wrote, translated, or compiled more than 40 volumes. The works for which he is remembered are marked by good sense, moderation, balance, order, and intellectual honesty. The f...

Oliver Goldsmith has a historical place in Canadian letters as the first published native-born poet. His poem The Rising Village (1825) is the first extended treatment in verse of the difficulties encountered by settlers in what are now the Maritime Prov...

The Canadian poet Oliver Goldsmith (1794-1861) is remembered primarily for "The Rising Village," the first book of verse to be written by a native Canadian, published in London. Oliver Goldsmith, a grandnephew of the British poet of the same name, was bo...

Two elderly camp gentlemen discussing deep vein thrombosis must rank high among the many things you don't necessarily expect to overhear while waiting for a nudie show to begin. But then, as its perpetrators are at pains to point out, Immodesty Blaize & Walter's...

Prime Minister Herbert Blaize, 71, a tough-minded conservative who oversaw the return of democratic rule to Grenada after the 1983 U.S.-led invasion of the island ousted its Marxist government, died yesterday at his official residence here. He had cancer and degenerative arthritis. Sir...