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Biography of Oliver Goldsmith
Name: Oliver Goldsmith
Birth Date: 1730
Death Date: 1774
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist
Oliver Goldsmith
The British poet, dramatist, novelist, and essayist Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) wrote, translated, or compiled more than 40 volumes. The works for which he is remembered are marked by good sense, moderation, balance, order, and intellectual honesty.The fifth child of a country rector in Ireland, Oliver Goldsmith entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1745 and earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1749. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1752-1753 but did not take a degree. After further medical training at the University of Leiden, he traveled on the Continent, not to return to London until 1756, when he attempted to establish a medical practice.Goldsmith soon began to supplement his meager income from medicine by contributing reviews and essays to such popular journals as the Monthly and the Critical. His first book, An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe (1759), included an important essay on the English stage. By the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…in Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (1957). Recommended for general historical and social background are J. H. Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century (1951; rev. ed. 1966); A. R. Humphreys, The Augustan World: Society, Thought, and Letters in Eighteenth Century England (1954; rev. ed. 1963); Ian Watt, The Augustan Age (1968); and R. J. White, The Age of George III (1968).Freeman, William, Oliver Goldsmith, Philadelphia: R. West, 1977 c1952.Gamble, William, Two Irish poets: Goldsmith and Moore, Philadelphia: R. West, 1977.Ginger, John, The notable man: the life and times of Oliver Goldsmith, London: Hamilton, 1977. Goldsmith: interviews and recollections, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. MacLennan, Munro, The secret of Oliver Goldsmith, New York: Vantage Press, 1975. Sells, A. Lytton (Arthur Lytton), Oliver Goldsmith: his life and works, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1974.Webberley, Leonard, The good-natured man: a portrait of Oliver Goldsmith, New York: Morrow, 1979.
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