Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical HeritageG.S. Rousseau Routledge, 2013 M10 31 - 412 pages The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to reaad the material themselves. |
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... scenes at the jail, or the lighter and humorous parts Of the story, we find the best and truest sentiments enforced in the most beautiful language; and perhaps there are few characters Of purer dignity [who] have been described thanthat ...
... scenes at the jail, or the lighter and humorous parts Of the story, we find the best and truest sentiments enforced in the most beautiful language; and perhaps there are few characters Of purer dignity [who] have been described thanthat ...
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... scenes galore and . . . the other, Hannah Cowley . . . Mrs. Cowley, who disliked the Industrial Revolution . . . naturally dreaded and indeed deprecated comparison of her poem [Scottish Village; or, Pitcairne Green] with Goldsmith's ...
... scenes galore and . . . the other, Hannah Cowley . . . Mrs. Cowley, who disliked the Industrial Revolution . . . naturally dreaded and indeed deprecated comparison of her poem [Scottish Village; or, Pitcairne Green] with Goldsmith's ...
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... scene had altered and a new type of poetry, meditative, personal, and expressive, was in vogue. Relatively 'conventional' landscapes like Goldsmith's were spurned and the idea of primitivism sans luxury found repulsive. Lord Macaulay ...
... scene had altered and a new type of poetry, meditative, personal, and expressive, was in vogue. Relatively 'conventional' landscapes like Goldsmith's were spurned and the idea of primitivism sans luxury found repulsive. Lord Macaulay ...
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Contents
1 | |
The Traveller or a Prospect of Society December
1764 | 29 |
The Vicar of Wakefield 27 March 1766 | 44 |
The Good Natured Man 29 January 1768 | 70 |
The Deserted Village 26 May 1770 | 76 |
She Stoops to Conquer March 1773 | 115 |
Retaliation I9 April 1774 posthumously published | 128 |
History of the Earth and Animated Nature 1 July 1774 posthumously published | 135 |
On Goldsmiths Life and Works | 157 |
Select Bibliography | 359 |
Index | 361 |
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