...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...

...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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...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 Ulrich K. Goldsmith. Boulder: University of Colorado Studies, Series in Language and Literature, No. 7, 1959. Pp. vii + 172. $3.00. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 380 Reviews Stefan George: A Stzcdy of His Early Work...

... 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 and the magnetism of his personality, no less than by the purity and beauty of his poetry, he emerged...

... 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 as If Swift is placed at one pole of eighteenth-century...

... 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...

... 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. Johnson on the death of his friend whom Ralph M. Wardle, in this cen- tury’s first scholarly...

... 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...

... 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 share a chapter...

...). 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...

... from Leaves of Grass to Kenneth Goldsmith’s Weather and Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs , attempts to comprehend serial poems and related longer forms as they have evolved from Walt Whitman to the present in terms of cybernetics, systems theory, and the contemporary study...

... bourgeois realism, Goldsmith’s benevolence, Smollett’s quixotic zeal (Launcelot Greaves), Sterne’s eccentricity (so mad, so wise, so gay, as Diderot called it), Miss Burney’s manners transcript, Bage’s utopian amelioratives, Miss Radcliffe’s Udolphian horrors, Godwin’s political polemicism...

... 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...