... stroke. ALAND. MCKILLQP The Rice Institute Oliver Goldsmith. By RALPH M. WARDLE. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1957. Pp 330. $5.00. “Let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man,” remarked Dr...

...? The reader who allows himself to be put off by them will miss much else that is remarkably perceptive in this stimulating book. PHILLIPHARTH Univel-sity of Wisconsin The True Genius of Oliuei- Goldsmith. By ROBERTH. HOPKINS...

...Lawrence Marsden Price Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 THE WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH ON THE GERMAN STAGE, 1776-1795 By LAWRENCEMARSDEN PRICE Oliver Goldsmith became well known in Germany immediately after the publication...

...George L. Barnett Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 TWO UNACKNOWLEDGED ADAPTATIONS FROM GOLDSMITH By GEORGEL. BARNETT In London there is a more cruel campaign than that waged by the Russians: the streets...

...Edward D. Seeber Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 GOLDSMITH’S AMERICAN TIGERS By EDWARDD. SEEBER For many years it was a common practice among critics, especially since Joseph Bkdier, to treat with amused skepticism the serpents...

...David Simpson David Simpson is Distinguished Professor and G. B. Needham Chair of English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger (2013). Blake’s Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions . By Goldsmith Steven...

...Alfred Lutz Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Alfred Lutz teaches in the University Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This essay is part of a longer study of Goldsmith's career. “The Deserted Vie”and the Politics of Genre Alfred Lutz...

...Lore B. Foltin 380 Reviews Stefan George: A Stzcdy of His Early Work. By ULRICH K. GOLDSMITH. Boulder : University of Colorado Studies, Series in Language and Literature, No. 7, 1959. Pp. vii 4- 172. $3.00. While the literary world, engrossed...

...Oscar Büdel Lore B. Foltin 381 Again and again, through examples from George’s poems, Goldsmith stt-csscs the point that George meant to teach and to influence an intellectual elite, chosen by him. By the integrity...

.... PHILLIPHARTH Univel-sity of Wisconsin The True Genius of Oliuei- Goldsmith. By ROBERTH. HOPKINS,Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. ix 4- 241 pp. $6.95. Kobert H. Hopkins’ attempt to demonstrate the “true genius” of Gold- smith results in such remarkable statements...

... of seven . . . without taking Washington Irving under my arm; and, when 1 don’t take him, I take his own brother Oliver Goldsmith.’ And after a long account of places planted in his memory by Irving’s descriptive genius, he said, “But these are topics familiar from my boyhood...

... rupprochmnent of the conclusion of Gray’s “Elegy” with Poussin’s “Shepherds of Arcady” is an extraordinarily brilliant stroke. ALAND. MCKILLQP The Rice Institute Oliver Goldsmith. By RALPH M. WARDLE. Lawrence: University of Kansas...

... are devoted; in the other chapters, specific works and larger formations are discussed. Among the practitioners, Kenny Goldsmith (b. 1961), K. Silem Mohammad (b. 1962), Rachel Zolf (b. 1968), and Craig Dworkin (b. 1969) are notable heroes, variously processing the materiality and the conventions...

... that a new edition contains much new information and justi- fies itself as a successor to the old. How does this one differ from its distin- guished predecessor? First, it contains 47 plays instead of 48 (the brief Ma- sons’ and longer Goldsmiths’ plays of the Three Kings are joined, so that Nos. 16...

... often followed the line of least resistance.” At the same time, Wardle indicates that Goldsmith simply did not consider strict originality necessary, especially for a compilation. He suggests that this activity reveals an unusual ability to grasp a subject and condense, extract, or select...

... by limiting himself to five successors of the masters: Gay, Johnson, Churchill, Goldsmith, and Crabbe. Young and Cowper also share a chapter. Such concentration turns up paying ore. The game is obviously not to find who can succeed to the drugget robe of a Flecknoe. It is not even to nominate...

...). One might object to a concept of “decline” so capacious as to encompass temporary decreases in economic productivity (Smith: chap. 1), lamentations of increasing urbanization and the loss of moral values identified with rural life (Oliver Goldsmith and William Wordsworth: chaps. 1 and 4), complaints...

... Jaussen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . vii + 226 pp . Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Paul Jaussen’s ambitious Writing in Real Time , ranging from Leaves of Grass to Kenneth Goldsmith’s Weather and Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone...

...- edged and has often been analyzed, are used principally to furnish points of reference. This structure allows Professor Brown to write a study in technical aesthetics by limiting himself to five successors of the masters: Gay, Johnson, Churchill, Goldsmith, and Crabbe. Young and Cowper also...

..., the cultivated responsiveness to every possible stimulus, is not always deistic in its origins or demonstration. The inspiration of Richardson’s bourgeois realism, Goldsmith’s benevolence, Smollett’s quixotic zeal (Launcelot Greaves), Sterne’s eccentricity (so mad, so wise, so gay, as Diderot...