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...
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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, moder...
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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...
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Like his older friend and fellow club member Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith distinguished himself in a broad variety of literary forms, writing essays, biographies, histories, poems, plays, and a no...
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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...
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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 enc...
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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...
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"Nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit, nullum quod tetigit non ornavit." ("There was scarcely any kind of writing that he did not touch, none that he touched that he did not adorn.") Samuel Johnson...
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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...
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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.
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In this essay, Brooks analyzes Kate Hardcastle's use of language to oppose the patriarchal system which would relegate her and all women to passive silence.
In the closing lines of his introduc...
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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...
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In this essay, Goldsmith finds the current state of drama in England debased and vulgar.
Our Theatre has been generally confessed to share in this general decline, though partaking of the show and dec...
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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...
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In the essay below, Quintana provides a comprehensive survey of Goldsmith's theatrical activities.
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Despite the fact that Goldsmith occupies a secure place among eighteenth-century dramatists,...
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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 the...
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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
