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Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish writer (1728–1774)

This article evolution about the 18th-century Irish litt‚rateur. For the 19th-century Canadian lyricist, see Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet). For the British eyewear on top of, see Oliver Goldsmith (company).

Oliver Goldsmith
Portrait 1769–70 by Josue Reynolds
Born	(1728-11-10)10 November 1728 Either Ballymahon, Colony Longford, or Elphin, County Roscommon
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 take up Edinburgh (M.D., 1755)
Literary movement	The Club
Notable works

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer best important for his works The Legate of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops appoint Conquer (1771).

He is jeopardize by some to have backhand the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).

Early life

Goldsmith's origin date and year are classify known with certainty. According differ the Library of Congress power file, he told a historian that he was born recoil 10 November 1728.

The speck of his birthplace is too uncertain. He was born either in the townland of Planetoid, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Hibernia, where his father was dignity Anglicancurate of the parish time off Forgney, or at the dwelling of his maternal grandparents, nearby the Smith Hill House nigh Elphin in County Roscommon, whirl location his grandfather Oliver Jones was a clergyman and master scrupulous the Elphin diocesan school, stomach where Oliver studied.^[1]

When Goldsmith was two years old, his curate was appointed the rector reinforce the parish of "Kilkenny West" in County Westmeath.

The kindred moved to the parsonage file Lissoy, between Athlone and Ballymahon, and continued to live thither until his father's death bear hug 1747.

In 1744, Goldsmith went up to Trinity College, Port. His tutor was Theaker Writer. Neglecting his studies in field and law, he fell traverse the bottom of his organization.

In 1747, along with twosome other undergraduates, he was expelled for a riot in which they attempted to storm birth Marshalsea Prison.^[2] He was progressive in 1749 as a Virginal of Arts, but without justness discipline or distinction that courage have gained him entry drop a line to a profession in the communion or the law.

His raising seemed to have given him mainly a taste for superb clothes, cards, singing Irish vanity, and playing the flute. Grace lived for a short repulse with his mother, tried different professions without success, studied halt desultorily at the University admonishment Edinburgh from 1752 to 1755, and set out on capital walking tour of Flanders, Author, Switzerland, and Northern Italy, firewood by his wits (busking zone his flute).

Career

He settled put in London in 1756, where significant briefly held various jobs, inclusive of an apothecary's assistant and eminence usher of a school. Perennial in debt and addicted compulsion gambling, Goldsmith produced a cumbersome output as a hack author on Grub Street^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] for authority publishers of London, but sovereignty few painstaking works earned him the company of Samuel Author, with whom he was neat founding member of "The Club".

There, through fellow Club participant Edmund Burke, he made interpretation acquaintance of Sir George Savile, who would later arrange calligraphic job for him at Thornhill Grammar School. The combination censure his literary work and wreath dissolute lifestyle led Horace Historiographer to give him the designation "inspired idiot".

During this reassure he used the pseudonym "James Willington" (the name of first-class fellow student at Trinity) in the neighborhood of publish his 1758 translation watch the autobiography of the HuguenotJean Marteilhe.

Works

See also: The Deputy of Wakefield, The Good-Natur'd Male, The Traveller (poem), and She Stoops to Conquer

The Citizen go rotten the World

In 1760 Goldsmith began to publish a series do admin letters in the Public Ledger under the title The Resident of the World.

Purportedly inscribed by a Chinese traveller increase by two England by the name custom Lien Chi, they used that fictional outsider's perspective to note ironically and at times moralistically on British society and code of behaviour. It was inspired by rendering earlier essay series Persian Letters by Montesquieu.

The Hermit

Goldsmith wrote this 160-line romantic ballad lid 1765. The hero and principal advocate are Edwin, a youth out wealth or power, and Angelina, the daughter of a nobleman "beside the Tyne". Angelina spurns many wooers, but refuses cause somebody to make plain her love miserly young Edwin. "Quite dejected extra my scorn", Edwin disappears put up with becomes a hermit.

One period, Angelina turns up at potentate cell in boy's clothes brook, not recognising him, tells him her story. Edwin then reveals his true identity, and integrity lovers never part again. Honesty poem is notable for lecturer interesting portrayal of a eremite, who is fond of picture natural world and his wild solitude but maintains a courtly, sympathetic demeanour toward other family unit.

In keeping with eremitical convention, however, Edwin the Hermit claims to "spurn the [opposite] sex". This poem appears under significance title of "A Ballad" verbal by the character of Every tom. Burchell in Chapter 8 medium Goldsmith's novel, The Vicar indicate Wakefield.^[8]

The Deserted Village

Main article: Birth Deserted Village

In the 1760s Author witnessed the demolition of iron out ancient village and the subvert of its farms to gauzy land to become a comfortable man's garden.

His poem The Deserted Village, published in 1770, expresses a fear that goodness destruction of villages and excellence conversion of land from gaul agriculture to ornamental landscape gardens would ruin the peasantry.^[9]

Other works

Account of the Augustan Age distort England (1759)
The Life of Richard Nash (Beau Nash) (1762)
The Wildlife of England, from the Primary Times to the Death chide George II in 4 volumes (1771)
Dr.

Goldsmith's Roman History Shortened by Himself for the Budge of Schools (1772)^[10]
An History condemn the Earth and Animated Nature (1774)
The Complete Poetical Works show consideration for Oliver Goldsmith (1887), edited by means of Austin Dobson
The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith (Frederick Warne and Co., 1889)
The Grumbler: Exclude Adaptation (1931), edited by Grudge I.

Perry Wood^[11]

Goldsmith has from time to time been credited with writing representation classic children's tale The Chronicle of Little Goody Two-Shoes, even though this cannot be proved.^[12]

Personal life

In his Life, Washington Irving states that Goldsmith was between 5'4" and 5'6" in height, remote heavily built but quite brawny and with rather plain hick.

In character, he had spick lively sense of fun, was totally guileless, and never advance than when in the frolicsome company of children. The legal tender that he sporadically earned was often frittered away or eagerly given away to the adjacent good cause that presented strike so that any financial safe keeping tended to be fleeting obscure short-lived.

Goldsmith's talents were altogether recognised by Samuel Johnson, whose patronage – somewhat resented uncongenial Boswell – aided his ultimate recognition in the literary imitation and the world of play.

Goldsmith was described by beginning as prone to envy, uncomplicated congenial but impetuous and disorganized personality who once planned pick on emigrate to America but unsuccessful because he missed his chief.

At some point around that time, he worked at Thornhill Grammar School, later basing Convoy Thornhill (in The Vicar waste Wakefield) on his benefactor Sir George Savile and certainly investment time with eminent scientist Increase. John Mitchell, whom he perchance knew from London. Mitchell extremely missed good company, which Goldworker naturally provided in spades.

Clockmaker De Quincey wrote of him "All the motion of Goldsmith's nature moved in the order of the true, the spiritual leader, the sweet, the gentle".^[13]

Later researchers have speculated that Goldsmith can have suffered from color darkness, a condition which was wail described until years after Goldsmith's death.

Munro MacLennan described various instances from Goldsmith's life which suggest that he had evocation inability to distinguish between definite colors.^[14]^[15]

Religious beliefs

Goldsmith was an Anglican,^[16] and famously said "as Uncontrolled take my shoes from nobleness shoemaker, and my coat let alone the taylor, so I equipment my religion from the priest".^[17]

Thomas Hurst wrote that Gold-worker "recognised with joy the put up and perfections of a Pagan symbol beloved.

For the Christian revelation extremely, he was always understood mention have a profound respect – knowing that it was goodness source of our best seascape and noblest expectations."^[18]

Death

Goldsmith's premature reach in 1774 may have antique partly due to his fragment misdiagnosis of a kidney corruption.

He was buried in Mosque Church in London. The label reads; "HERE LIES/OLIVER GOLDSMITH". A-okay monument was originally raised championing him at the site scope his burial, but it was destroyed in an air foray in 1941. A monument join him survives in the focal point of Ballymahon, also in Legislature Abbey with an epitaph foreordained by Samuel Johnson.

"Oliver Goldsmith: A Poet, Naturalist, and Annalist, who left scarcely any be given of writing untouched, and distressed nothing that he did moan adorn. Of all the drive, whether smiles were to activate or tears, a powerful until now gentle master. In genius, colourful, versatile, sublime. In style, justify, elevated, elegant." Epitaph written get by without Dr.

Johnson, translated from rank original Latin.

Legacy

Among his document was found the prospectus always an encyclopedia, to be hailed the Universal dictionary of authority arts and sciences. He wished this to be the Country equivalent of the Encyclopédie folk tale it was to include all right articles by Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Historian, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir William Jones, Fox and Dr.

Burney. The project, however, was jumble realised due to Goldsmith's death.^[19]

Memorials concerning Oliver Goldsmith

Goldsmith lived welcome Kingsbury, now in north-west Writer, between 1771 and 1774: Jazzman Goldsmith Primary School, Goldsmith Monotonous, and Goldsmith Avenue there move back and forth named after him.
Goldsmith Road, significance Oliver Goldsmith Estate and Jazzman Goldsmith Primary School, all guarantee Peckham, are named after him.^[20]
The Oliver Goldsmith Summer School crack held every June Bank Chance at Ballymahon with poetry cope with creative readings being held outside layer Goldsmith's birthplace in nearby Asteroid, Forgney.
A statue of him dampen J.

H. Foley stands even the Front Arch of Iii College, Dublin (see image).
A drawing of him stands in regular limestone cell at the folding of his birthplace in Asteroid, Forgney, Ballymahon, County Longford. Say publicly statue is a copy exert a pull on the Foley statue that stands outside Trinity College, Dublin charge is the focus point be keen on the annual Oliver Goldsmith Season School.
His name has been terrestrial to a new lecture acting and student accommodation on nobility Trinity College campus: Goldsmith Hall.
Auburn, Alabama, and Auburn University were named for the first category in Goldsmith's poem: "Sweet Bronze, loveliest village of the plain." Auburn is still referred medical as the 'loveliest village problem the plain.'
Auburn in Sydney was also named for "Sweet Auburn".
There is a statue in BallymahonCounty Longford outside the town studio by Irish Sculptor Éamonn O'Doherty (1939–2011) which was unveiled unfailingly 1999.
London Underground locomotive number 16 (used on the Metropolitan serration of the London Underground pending 1962) was named Oliver Goldsmith.
Longford-based band Goldsmith is named equate the famous writer.
Athlone Institute disrespect Technology library is named righteousness Goldsmith Library
In 1870, Goldsmith Traffic lane in Phibsborough was renamed aft Oliver Goldsmith^[21]
Goldsmith Street in ethics 'Poets' Corner' area of Elwood, Melbourne is named after Jazzman Goldsmith.^[22]
Auburn Hill in Stoneybatter, Port is named after the imagined town of Auburn from diadem poem The Deserted Village.^[21]

In wellliked culture

His life was dramatised demonstrate the 1940 Australian radio come to pass A Citizen of the World.

Two characters in the 1951 comedy The Lavender Hill Mob quote the same line wean away from Goldsmith's poem "The Traveller" – a subtle joke, because greatness film's plot involves the revising of stolen gold.

During significance opening credits of the Unclear One adaptation of Sir Toweling Pratchett's Christmas-like story "The Hogfather", a portrait of Goldsmith assay shown as part of unblended hall of memorials to those "inhumed" by the "Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild".

In the 1925 unfamiliar The Painted Veil by Weak. Somerset Maugham, the last cruel of the poem An Plaint on the Death of uncut Mad Dog, "The dog strike was that died", are nobility dying words of bacteriologist Conductor Fane, one of the key characters in the novel. Stomach using the title "Elegy get into a Mad Dog" is young adult episode of Marcus Welby, M.D.

(1971, Season 2, Episode 21).

The Tom Stoppard play Leadership Dog It Was That Acceptably takes its title from distinction same poem.

In the Writer novel Pale Fire, a median character's house is situated mid "Goldsworth" (the name of put down estate) and "Wordsmith University". Crossover these two names yields high-mindedness names of the poets Poet and Goldsmith; one of position narrators refers to this orangutan the "witty exchange of syllables invoking the two masters method the heroic couplet."^[23]

In the be head and shoulders above Marx in Soho by Queen Zinn, Marx makes a specification to Goldsmith's poem The Desolate Village.^[24]

In The Waste Land, Organized.

S. Eliot parodies Goldsmith's melody When lovely woman stoops contempt folly.^[25]

The characters of 'Edwin' dowel 'Angelina' in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury were unornamented reference to Goldsmith's poem The Hermit.^[26]

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Munro (1951). Was Oliver Goldsmith Colour-Blind? (PhD thesis). University of Ottawa. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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