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Informationen zum Autor Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish author, playwright, dramatist, and poet who lived from 10 November 1728 to 4 April 1774.Goldsmith claimed to a biographer that he was born on November 10, 1728, yet his exact birthdate and year are unknown. He was either born in the Smith Hill House in the vicinity of Elphin, County Roscommon, or at Pallas, close to Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland. His schooling seems to have mostly given him a liking for expensive clothing, card games, Irish tunes, and playing the flute.Goldsmith, a perpetual debtor and gambling addict, wrote a ton for London's publishers while working as a hack writer on Grub Street. To publish his 1758 translation of the memoirs of the Huguenot Jean Marteilhe, he assumed the alias ""James Willington"" at this time. His contemporaries regarded him as envious, impulsive, and disorganized, with a history of planning to immigrate to America but failing because he missed his ship. The incorrect diagnosis of his kidney ailment before his untimely death in 1774 may have contributed to it.Goldsmith was laid to rest in London's Temple Church. At the location of his interment, a memorial honoring him had previously been erected, but it had been destroyed in a 1941 air strike. Klappentext This volume! originally published in 1910! brings together thirty-two of Goldsmith's critical essays! illustrating the variety and vibrancy of his prose. Zusammenfassung Oliver Goldsmith became one of the great figures of the eighteenth-century literary scene. A character as absurd as he was talented! Goldsmith was best known for literative works such as She Stoops to Conquer (1771). This volume! originally published in 1910! brings together thirty-two of his critical essays! illustrating the variety and vibrancy of his prose. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. 'English Pride'; 2. 'Characteristics of Different Countries'; 3. 'A Visit to Westminster Abbey'; 4. 'The Character of the Man in Black'; 5. 'The History of the Man in Black'; 6. 'A Description of a Club of Authors'; 7. 'The Proceedings of the Club of Authors'; 8. 'Sights and Monsters'; 9. 'A Bookseller's Visit'; 10. 'The Character of Beau Tibbs'; 11. 'A Visit to Beau Tibbs'; 12. 'Happiness and Show'; 13. 'Mad Dogs'; 14. 'An Evening at Vauxhall'; 15. 'A Little Great Man'; 16. 'Anecdotes of Poets'; 17. 'Imitation in Literature'; 18. 'The Courts of Justice'; 19. 'A Coronation'; 20. 'Funeral Elegies'; 21. 'Finding Famous Men'; 22. 'A City Night-Piece'; 23. 'Travellers' Tales'; 24. 'A Reverie'; 25. 'The Sentiments of a Frenchman on the Temper of the English'; 26. 'The Characteristics of Greatness'; 27. 'An Account of the Augustan Age of England'; 28. 'National Prejudices'; 29. 'Adventures of a Strolling Player'; 30. 'On the Use of Language'; 31. 'Independence'; 32. 'At the Play'; Notes....
