Oliver Goldsmith Summary

Biography EssayDuring his short but remarkable literary career of only fifteen years, Oliver Goldsmith wrote individual essays, a pseudoletter essay series, biographies, poems, a novel, and plays&mdas... Read more

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 gra... Read more

Oliver Goldsmith, a writer who (as Dr. Johnson said) left no genre untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn, gave us two of the most characteristic poems, the best-loved novel, the most delig... Read more

During his short but remarkable literary career of only fifteen years, Oliver Goldsmith wrote individual essays, a pseudoletter essay series, biographies, poems, a novel, and plays--every literary gen... Read more

Since its first night on 15 March 1773, Oliver Goldsmith's second play, the comedy She Stoops to Conquer, has appeared in over three hundred different editions and has been produced in the London West... Read more

In the following, which was first published in the first number of the journal The Bee in 1759, Goldsmith censures the artificiality of the acting style prevalent on the London stage of his time. O... Read more

In the excerpt below, Burling argues that the Charles Marlowe-Kate Hardcastle romance is meant to be comic. "From the entire basis of the play's action itself to every detail of the rela... Read more

The following piece was first published in the 1 January 1773 issue of Westminster Magazine. Here Goldsmith censures the "new species of dramatic composition," sentimental comedy. He fin... Read more

In the following essay, Styan argues that the "ingrained attitude[s of sophisticated London society" are the targets of Goldsmith's satire in his comedies.] In 1773, almost at ... Read more