Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical HeritageG. S. Rousseau The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to reaad the material themselves. |
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... early reviews of The Good Natured Man , 1768 , 1772 ( a ) Unsigned review , Critical Review , February 1768 ( b ) SIR NICHOLAS NIPCLOSE [ pseudonym ] commenting on Goldsmith and other theatrical delinquents in 1768 , in The Theatres . A ...
... early reviews of The Good Natured Man , 1768 , 1772 ( a ) Unsigned review , Critical Review , February 1768 ( b ) SIR NICHOLAS NIPCLOSE [ pseudonym ] commenting on Goldsmith and other theatrical delinquents in 1768 , in The Theatres . A ...
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... early life and his struggle to write , in A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland , 1777 46 Words on Goldsmith's writing career and poetic attainment by EDMOND MALONE , in the preface to Poems and Plays by Oliver Goldsmith , 1777 ...
... early life and his struggle to write , in A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland , 1777 46 Words on Goldsmith's writing career and poetic attainment by EDMOND MALONE , in the preface to Poems and Plays by Oliver Goldsmith , 1777 ...
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... early American edition of Goldsmith's works , 1809 64 An artist writing memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds comments on Goldsmith , in Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... by James Northcote , Esq . , R.A. , 1813 65 JOHN KEATS to Fanny Keats ...
... early American edition of Goldsmith's works , 1809 64 An artist writing memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds comments on Goldsmith , in Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... by James Northcote , Esq . , R.A. , 1813 65 JOHN KEATS to Fanny Keats ...
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... early display of poetic genius in The Traveller ( b ) The originality of The Vicar of Wakefield ( c ) On The Deserted Village ( d ) Goldsmith's dramatic achievement in She Stoops to Conquer 278 280 281 281 282 283 292 295 298 76 ...
... early display of poetic genius in The Traveller ( b ) The originality of The Vicar of Wakefield ( c ) On The Deserted Village ( d ) Goldsmith's dramatic achievement in She Stoops to Conquer 278 280 281 281 282 283 292 295 298 76 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Traveller or a Prospect of Society December 1764 | 29 |
JOHN LANGHORNE Monthly Review January 1765 | 35 |
The Vicar of Wakefield 27 March 1766 | 44 |
LADY SARAH PENNINGTON An Unfortunate Mothers Advice | 51 |
MRS JANE WEST Commenting on criminal conversation | 57 |
GEORGE ELIOT on story telling and narrative art in | 63 |
IS HENRY JAMESs introduction to The Vicar of Wakefield 1900 | 65 |
in Memoirs of Samuel Foote Esq 1777 | 180 |
so Unsigned notice on Goldsmiths pride in European | 198 |
56 | 211 |
58 | 226 |
THOMAS PERCYs memoir of Goldsmith in an introduction | 237 |
62 | 250 |
WASHINGTON IRVING comments on Goldsmiths life | 263 |
GOETHE on Goldsmiths irony and vision of man | 277 |
GEORGE DANIEL on The Good Natured Man in an edition | 73 |
JOHN HAWKESWORTHs review Monthly Review June 1770 | 83 |
CORBYN MORRISs rhapsodic verses On Reading | 90 |
EDWARD MANGIN on Goldsmiths greatness as a moral | 108 |
She Stoops to Conquer March 1773 | 115 |
Unsigned review Critical Review March 1773 | 122 |
Unsigned letter about Goldsmiths brand of sentiment | 124 |
Unsigned notice in the London Chronicle containing | 130 |
EDWARD BANCROFT attacks Goldsmiths History of | 152 |
JAMES BEATTIE on Goldsmiths envy of other authors | 159 |
A tribute to Goldsmith as a poet by JOHN TAIT author | 165 |
FRANCIS SPILSBURY esteems Goldsmith as a poet in a medical | 171 |
Anecdotes of Goldsmith by a friend and enemy GEORGE | 278 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING on the poetry | 300 |
JOHANN WILHELM VON GOETHE on the influence of | 308 |
GEORGE LEWES reviewing Forsters Life of Oliver | 325 |
HENRY GEORGE BOHN on Goldsmiths moral character | 333 |
W M THACKERAY and THOMAS DE QUINCEY on aspects | 338 |
From THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYs life of Goldsmith | 347 |
DAVID MASSON on Goldsmiths English style from | 353 |
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