...Frances M. Haydon Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 OLIVER GOLDSMITH AS A BIOGRAPHER FRANCES M. HAYDON ALTHOUGH Oliver Goldsmith s place in literature is now jlJl secure because of his well-known novel, The Vicar of Wake­ field, which influenced Goethe in his youth; because...

... : University of Minnesota Press , 1952 . Pp. xi , 212 . $3.50 . Oliver Goldsmith . By Freeman William . New York : Philosophical Library , 1952 . Pp. 286 . $4.50 . William Cowper: A Critical Life . By Quinlan Maurice J. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1953 . Pp...

...L. M. Angus-Butterworth Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 GOLDSMITH AS HISTORIAN L. M. ANGUS-BUTTERWORTH THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD continues to give its author an outstanding place as a novelist; She Stoops to Conquer maintains his place in the front rank of dramatists; The Deserted...

...Oliver W. Ferguson Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Goldsmith Oliver W. Ferguson There will come a day, no doubt it will I beg you may live a couple of hundred years longer only to see the day when the Scaligers and Daciers will vindicate my character, give learned edi­ tions...

...Robert D. Spector The True Genius of Oliver Goldsmith . By Hopkins Robert H. . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1969 . Pp. ix , 241 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 292 The South Atlantic Quarterly useful without undue distortion or limitation...

...Oliver W. Ferguson Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Goldsmith s "Retaliation Oliver W. Ferguson Retaliation has always occupied a prominent place in the Gold­ smith canon. Indeed, the poem excited considerable discussion even before it was published; and after its appearance...

...Steven Goldsmith Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Steven Goldsmith Blake s Agitation Thought works over what is received, it seeks to reflect on it and overcome it. It seeks to determine what has already been thought, written, painted, or socialized in order to determine what...

...Andrew Wright The Art of Joseph Andrews . By Goldberg Homer . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1969 . Pp. 292 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 293 properly distinguishes between Goldsmith s use of satire for prose and his [use...

... UNIVERSITY MONROE K. SPEARS The True Genius of Oliver Goldsmith. By Robert H. Hopkins. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. Pp. ix, 241. $6.95. For Robert H. Hopkins, Oliver Goldsmith has been sadly misread as a muddling sentimentalist, lacking in profundity, subtlety, and artistry. Through...

... in May, 1734. It is worth passing notice that Berkeley s interest in America continued after his return to England and that he made a gift of his farm in Rhode Island to Yale and of valuable books to both Harvard and Yale. Like John Donne, Oliver Goldsmith never got to America at all, but, if the account...

... worked for twenty-five years with little change. Every friend of university presses has to hope that Gay Wilson Allen s recent, prize-winning biography of Emerson will help to promote this set. [Louis J. Budd, Duke University] Samuel H. Woods, Jr., has given Goldsmith scholars an extremely useful...

... lifted descriptions with little altera­ tion from Irving-, and had adapted some of Irving s tales. A Tale of Two Cities owes its very existence to Carlyle s Is Dickens Still a Hero? 281 French Revolution, and A Child s History of England is little more than a copy of Goldsmith s History of England; even...

... in Contingency (2016), edited by Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever. Her •elds of interest include precarious labor, critical migration studies, and feminist theory. Moritz Altenried is a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a research a–liate of the Digital Cultures Research Lab...

...; and it is surprising to find a long selection from The Deserted Village, which I suspect Goldsmith meant to be more poignant than sarcastic. Goldsmith s lines have always seemed to me written in simple sor­ row that the countryside has become a garden and a grave. As we near the end of Grigson s useful...

... to a stern test with Elsie Lee West, ed., Oliver Book Reviews 273 Goldsmith: A Biography I Biography of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978, $25.00). Today Irvings s admiring life of Goldsmith interests only the historian of literary tastes; its present editor concedes...

... Policy Manage- ment, City University London. Her research focuses on labor issues, precar- ity, and policy within the creative and cultural sectors. She completed her master of arts at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths. She is a mem- ber of the editorial collective of the journal ephemera...

... from the University of London, Goldsmith's College. Her main interests include digital media studies, journalism, political economy, and regulation of media. Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby is professor in the philosophy department at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences. She holds...

... enthusiasts rather than solitaries. We may further clarify our study by examining at the outset certain types of poems, such as Parnell s Hermit and Goldsmith s Traveller. These poems depict respectively a hermit, and a traveller who journeys alone; but they do not deal with any innate longing...

... scholarly treatment. Suppose an elementary textbook should state: Oliver Goldsmith is an orthodox neoclassicist, completely loyal to the stand­ ards of the Augustan wits. If we choose, we may call this simple statement oversimplified, but the important objection to it is that it is untrue. Let...

... that presents, in addition to Johnson, many other important figures of the period. Samuel H. Woods, Jr., for example, examines Boswell s writings for biographical information about Oliver Goldsmith and finds a disparity between the journals or letters and the Life. Clearly, in the latter context, Goldsmith...