This article is about the 18th-century Irish writer. For the 19th-century Canadian poet, see Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet). For the British eyewear company, see Oliver Goldsmith (company).
Oliver Goldsmith
Portrait 1769–70 by Joshua Reynolds
Born
(1728-11-10)10 November 1728 Either Ballymahon, County Longford, Kingdom of Ireland, or Elphin, County Roscommon, Kingdom of Ireland
Died
4 April 1774(1774-04-04) (aged 45) London, England
Resting place
Temple Church, London
Occupation
Playwright, poet, busker, apothecary's assistant
Language
English
Education
Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1749) University of Edinburgh (M.D., 1755)
Literary movement
The Club
Notable works
The Vicar of Wakefield
"The Deserted Village"
The Good-Natur'd Man
She Stoops to Conquer
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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
where his grandfather Oliver Jones was a clergyman and master of the Elphin diocesan school, and where Oliver studied. When Goldsmith was two years old,...
market. He also supported and published the works of Christopher Smart, OliverGoldsmith and Samuel Johnson. In recognition of his achievements the Newbery...
persuasive set of tenets within a presentation. "True eloquence," OliverGoldsmith says, "Does not consist ... in saying great things in a sublime style...
She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by OliverGoldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre...
The Deserted Village is a poem by OliverGoldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit...
Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of OliverGoldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century...
continued to coexist with more conventional laughing comedies such as OliverGoldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1773) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals...
Supposed to be written by Himself, is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer OliverGoldsmith (1728–1774). It was written from 1761 to 1762 and published in 1766...
the OliverGoldsmith Summer School, a festival of literature which is held on the June Bank Holiday Weekend, with poetry readings held at Goldsmith's birthplace...
Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, William Trevor, John Millington Synge, OliverGoldsmith, Thomas Moore and William Congreve; Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett...
1767 Tristram Shandy condemns plagiarism by resorting to plagiarism. OliverGoldsmith commented: Sterne's Writings, in which it is clearly shewn, that he...
the theatre include Miss Kate Hardcastle, She Stoops to Conquer by OliverGoldsmith at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1990) She's in Your Hands by Georges...
James Goldsmith (born 28 October 1980) is an English financier and environmentalist. The son of financier James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Goldsmith he is...
Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith (born 30 January 1974), known professionally by her former married name Jemima Khan, is an English journalist and screenwriter...
such as Walter Scott, Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, and OliverGoldsmith, whose style and genre Austen repudiated, returning the novel on a...
Title Playwright Director Role Venue Ref 1990 She Stoops to Conquer OliverGoldsmith James Maxwell Mrs Hardcastle Royal Exchange, Manchester 1992 An Ideal...
clergy". According to William Howitt, writing in 1847 with reference to OliverGoldsmith: Trinity College Dublin, is a noble structure; and, with its spacious...
synonym for a still vaguer man of taste or a pretend critic. In 1760, OliverGoldsmith said, "Painting is and has been and now will someday become the sole...
Travelers (novel), by Helon Habila, 2019 "The Traveller" (poem), by OliverGoldsmith, 1764 The Traveller, a poem by James Dillet Freeman "The Traveller"...
sisters. His first acting role was playing a leopard in a play at OliverGoldsmith Primary School. While in another play there at age nine, he was noticed...
and satirical than in the era of Julius Caesar. Later, Voltaire and OliverGoldsmith (in his History of Literature in 1764) used the term "Augustan" to...
an anonymous writer widely believed to be English poet and author OliverGoldsmith presented a table comparing 29 English poets, rating them on a scale...
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