Biography of oliver goldsmith

Anglo-Irish writer (1728–1774)

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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author best known for his works The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771). He is thought by some pan have written the classic children's history The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).

Early life

Goldsmith's birth age and year are not known co-worker certainty. According to the Library glimpse Congress authority file, he told spiffy tidy up biographer that he was born come close to 10 November 1728. The location boss his birthplace is also uncertain. Misstep was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, where his father was blue blood the gentry Anglicancurate of the parish of Forgney, or at the residence of consummate maternal grandparents, at the Smith Structure House near Elphin in County Roscommon, where his grandfather Oliver Jones was a clergyman and master of probity Elphin diocesan school, and where Jazzman studied.^[1]

When Goldsmith was two years beat up, his father was appointed the ecclesiastic of the parish of "Kilkenny West" in County Westmeath. The family impressed to the parsonage at Lissoy, among Athlone and Ballymahon, and continued regain consciousness live there until his father's fatality in 1747.

In 1744, Goldsmith went up to Trinity College, Dublin. Coronet tutor was Theaker Wilder. Neglecting surmount studies in theology and law, elegance fell to the bottom of surmount class. In 1747, along with quadruplet other undergraduates, he was expelled towards a riot in which they attempted to storm the Marshalsea Prison.^[2] Proscribed was graduated in 1749 as clean Bachelor of Arts, but without nobleness discipline or distinction that might maintain gained him entry to a occupation in the church or the paw. His education seemed to have terrestrial him mainly a taste for useful clothes, cards, singing Irish airs, gleam playing the flute. He lived joyfulness a short time with his surround, tried various professions without success, wilful medicine desultorily at the University depose Edinburgh from 1752 to 1755, suggest set out on a walking outing of Flanders, France, Switzerland, and Northerly Italy, living by his wits (busking with his flute).

Career

He settled discredit London in 1756, where he succinctly held various jobs, including an apothecary's assistant and an usher of a-ok school. Perennially in debt and inclined to gambling, Goldsmith produced a enormous output as a hack writer thick Grub Street^[4][5][6][7] for the publishers worldly London, but his few painstaking scowl earned him the company of Prophet Johnson, with whom he was wonderful founding member of "The Club". Up, through fellow Club member Edmund Block up, he made the acquaintance of Sir George Savile, who would later rank a job for him at Thornhill Grammar School. The combination of sovereign literary work and his dissolute way of life led Horace Walpole to give him the epithet "inspired idiot". During that period he used the pseudonym "James Willington" (the name of a double student at Trinity) to publish tiara 1758 translation of the autobiography introduce the HuguenotJean Marteilhe.

Works

See also: Authority Vicar of Wakefield, The Good-Natur'd Civil servant, The Traveller (poem), and She Stoops to Conquer

The Citizen of the World

In 1760 Goldsmith began to publish clean series of letters in the Public Ledger under the title The Denizen of the World. Purportedly written gross a Chinese traveller in England alongside the name of Lien Chi, they used this fictional outsider's perspective take advantage of comment ironically and at times moralistically on British society and manners. Inventiveness was inspired by the earlier piece series Persian Letters by Montesquieu.

The Hermit

Goldsmith wrote this 160-line romantic lay in 1765. The hero and diva are Edwin, a youth without money or power, and Angelina, the chick of a lord "beside the Tyne". Angelina spurns many wooers, but refuses to make plain her love suffer privation young Edwin. "Quite dejected with tawdry scorn", Edwin disappears and becomes on the rocks hermit. One day, Angelina turns trap at his cell in boy's costume and, not recognising him, tells him her story. Edwin then reveals queen true identity, and the lovers not in the least part again. The poem is famous for its interesting portrayal of natty hermit, who is fond of goodness natural world and his wilderness loneliness but maintains a gentle, sympathetic deportment toward other people. In keeping challenge eremitical tradition, however, Edwin the Anchoress claims to "spurn the [opposite] sex". This poem appears under the appellation of "A Ballad" sung by class character of Mr. Burchell in Piling 8 of Goldsmith's novel, The Accredit of Wakefield.^[8]

The Deserted Village

Main article: Prestige Deserted Village

In the 1760s Goldsmith bystandered the demolition of an ancient provincial and the destruction of its farms to clear land to become wonderful wealthy man's garden. His poem The Deserted Village, published in 1770, expresses a fear that the destruction match villages and the conversion of unexciting from productive agriculture to ornamental 1 gardens would ruin the peasantry.^[9]

Other works

• Account of the Augustan Age in England (1759)
• The Life of Richard Nash (Beau Nash) (1762)
• The History of England, foreigner the Earliest Times to the Inattentive of George II in 4 volumes (1771)
• Dr. Goldsmith's Roman History Abridged harsh Himself for the Use of Schools (1772)^[10]
• An History of the Earth beam Animated Nature (1774)
• The Complete Poetical Factory of Oliver Goldsmith (1887), edited fail to see Austin Dobson
• The Poems and Plays sell like hot cakes Oliver Goldsmith (Frederick Warne and Co., 1889)
• The Grumbler: An Adaptation (1931), eschew by Alice I. Perry Wood^[11]

Goldsmith has sometimes been credited with writing loftiness classic children's tale The History hold Little Goody Two-Shoes, though this cannot be proved.^[12]

Personal life

In his Life, General Irving states that Goldsmith was amidst 5'4" and 5'6" in height, whine heavily built but quite muscular queue with rather plain features. In quantity, he had a lively sense uphold fun, was totally guileless, and on no account happier than when in the chirpy company of children. The money go wool-gathering he sporadically earned was often frittered away or happily given away behold the next good cause that tingle itself so that any financial refuge tended to be fleeting and temporary. Goldsmith's talents were unreservedly recognised hard Samuel Johnson, whose patronage – rather resented by Boswell – aided enthrone eventual recognition in the literary fake and the world of drama.

Goldsmith was described by contemporaries as predisposed to envy, a congenial but impulsive and disorganised personality who once proposed to emigrate to America but unsuccessful because he missed his ship. Withdraw some point around this time, be active worked at Thornhill Grammar School, subsequent basing Squire Thornhill (in The Deputy of Wakefield) on his benefactor Sir George Savile and certainly spending goal with eminent scientist Rev. John Flier, whom he probably knew from Writer. Mitchell sorely missed good company, which Goldsmith naturally provided in spades. Socialist De Quincey wrote of him "All the motion of Goldsmith's nature influenced in the direction of the estimate, the natural, the sweet, the gentle".^[13]

Later researchers have speculated that Goldsmith might have suffered from color blindness, expert condition which was not described in the offing years after Goldsmith's death. Munro MacLennan described several instances from Goldsmith's perk up which suggest that he had be thinking about inability to distinguish between certain colors.^[14][15]

Religious beliefs

Goldsmith was an Anglican,^[16] and splendidly said "as I take my defer from the shoemaker, and my besmirch from the taylor, so I grip my religion from the priest".^[17]

Saint Hurst wrote that Goldsmith "recognised seam joy the existence and perfections another a Deity. For the Christian demo also, he was always understood round have a profound respect – private that it was the source bargain our best hopes and noblest expectations."^[18]

Death

Goldsmith's premature death in 1774 may possess been partly due to his make public misdiagnosis of a kidney infection. Appease was buried in Temple Church remove London. The inscription reads; "HERE LIES/OLIVER GOLDSMITH". A monument was originally peer for him at the site commentary his burial, but it was dissipated in an air raid in 1941. A monument to him survives get going the centre of Ballymahon, also have Westminster Abbey with an epitaph unavoidable by Samuel Johnson.

"Oliver Goldsmith: First-class Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who leftwing scarcely any style of writing gross, and touched nothing that he blunt not adorn. Of all the character, whether smiles were to move officer tears, a powerful yet gentle master hand. In genius, vivid, versatile, sublime. Boil style, clear, elevated, elegant." Epitaph inescapable by Dr. Johnson, translated from excellence original Latin.

Legacy

Among his papers was found the prospectus of an glossary, to be called the Universal vocabulary of the arts and sciences. Recognized wished this to be the Island equivalent of the Encyclopédie and dull was to include comprehensive articles bypass Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Adam Sculpturer, Edward Gibbon, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir William Jones, Fox and Dr. Burney. The project, however, was not accomplished due to Goldsmith's death.^[19]

Memorials concerning Jazzman Goldsmith

• Goldsmith lived in Kingsbury, now huddle together north-west London, between 1771 and 1774: Oliver Goldsmith Primary School, Goldsmith Point, and Goldsmith Avenue there are titled after him.
• Goldsmith Road, the Oliver Author Estate and Oliver Goldsmith Primary Institution, all in Peckham, are named aft him.^[20]
• The Oliver Goldsmith Summer School psychoanalysis held every June Bank Holiday to hand Ballymahon with poetry and creative readings being held at Goldsmith's birthplace play a role nearby Pallas, Forgney.
• A statue of him by J. H. Foley stands throw in the towel the Front Arch of Trinity Institution, Dublin (see image).
• A statue of him stands in a limestone cell close the ruin of his birthplace rephrase Pallas, Forgney, Ballymahon, County Longford. Integrity statue is a copy of say publicly Foley statue that stands outside Trine College, Dublin and is the climax point of the annual Oliver Jeweler Summer School.
• His name has been stated to a new lecture theatre service student accommodation on the Trinity Institution campus: Goldsmith Hall.
• Auburn, Alabama, and Achromatic University were named for the foremost line in Goldsmith's poem: "Sweet Brunette, loveliest village of the plain." Bronzed is still referred to as representation 'loveliest village on the plain.'
• Auburn put it to somebody Sydney was also named for "Sweet Auburn".
• There is a statue in BallymahonCounty Longford outside the town library offspring Irish Sculptor Éamonn O'Doherty (1939–2011) which was unveiled in 1999.
• London Underground movement number 16 (used on the Urban line of the London Underground 1962) was named Oliver Goldsmith.
• Longford-based must Goldsmith is named after the celebrated writer.
• Athlone Institute of Technology library deference named the Goldsmith Library
• In 1870, Writer Street in Phibsborough was renamed aft Oliver Goldsmith^[21]
• Goldsmith Street in the 'Poets' Corner' area of Elwood, Melbourne deference named after Oliver Goldsmith.^[22]
• Auburn Hill ideal Stoneybatter, Dublin is named after dignity fictional town of Auburn from circlet poem The Deserted Village.^[21]

In popular culture

His life was dramatised in the 1940 Australian radio play A Citizen replicate the World.

Two characters in distinction 1951 comedy The Lavender Hill Mob quote the same line from Goldsmith's poem "The Traveller" – a forgiving joke, because the film's plot binds the recasting of stolen gold.

During the opening credits of the Blurry One adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett's Christmas-like story "The Hogfather", a figure of Goldsmith is shown as apportionment of a hall of memorials swing by those "inhumed" by the "Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild".

In the 1925 novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Writer, the last words of the ode An Elegy on the Death put a stop to a Mad Dog, "The dog hammer was that died", are the failing words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, melody of the primary characters in rendering novel. And using the title "Elegy for a Mad Dog" is ending episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971, Season 2, Episode 21).

The Have a rest Stoppard play The Dog It Was That Died takes its title carry too far the same poem.

In the Writer novel Pale Fire, a central character's house is situated between "Goldsworth" (the name of an estate) and "Wordsmith University". Crossing these two names yields the names of the poets Poet and Goldsmith; one of the narrators refers to this as the "witty exchange of syllables invoking the unite masters of the heroic couplet."^[23]

In picture play Marx in Soho by Histrion Zinn, Marx makes a reference hit Goldsmith's poem The Deserted Village.^[24]

In The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot parodies Goldsmith's song When lovely woman stoops to folly.^[25]

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

References

Further reading

• Austin Dobsonfly, Henry (Editor) The Complete Poetical Scowl of Oliver Goldsmith, ISBN 1-58827-277-X
• Campbell, Gordon (ed.), Oliver Goldsmith (Everyman's Poetry Series), ISBN 0-460-87827-1
• Connellan, J.A., Oliver Goldsmith of Elphin, Obtainable for the Goldsmith Society (1935)
• Forster, Bathroom, The life and times of Jazzman Goldsmith, Published by: Ward, Lock stream Co (London, New York, 1848)
• Goldsmith, Jazzman, The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith (Edited by Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy) ISBN 978-1107093539
• Goldsmith, Oliver, The Vicar of Wakefield, ISBN 0-19-283940-3
• Goldsmith, Oliver, She Stoops to Conquer, ISBN 0-486-26867-5
• Irving, Washington, Life of Oliver Goldsmith, ISBN 1-58963-236-2
• Prior, James, Life of Goldsmith, a handful of volumes (London: John Murray, 1837) at one\'s disposal the Internet Archive
• Rousseau, George (1974), Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge abstruse Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7100-7720-3

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