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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer best known for his works such as The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771).
He was a great genius and tried his hand at fiction, prose, drama, and poetry. His contribution to English comedy is not negligible. He reacted sharply to the Sentimental comedy which was under the spell of French playwriters of the period.
In this memoir, written two years after Goldsmith’s death, Reynolds does not hide his friend’s flaws, but he argues that Goldsmith was “a man of genius” and that even rarer thing as well ...
Despite his reputation as a literary genius, Goldsmith had a mischievous side and was known to play practical jokes on his friends and colleagues.
Despite his prolific career as a writer in many different genres, Goldsmith never enjoyed the celebrity of his friend Dr. Johnson, whose name after 1756 acquired that status of household word as The Great Lexicographer. Had Goldsmith not given his only novel to Johnson to review, it might never have been published.
Within its broad framework, the genre of the novel has encompassed an. Oliver Goldsmith, (born Nov. 10, 1730, Kilkenny West, County Westmeath, Ire.—died April 4, 1774, London, Eng.), Irish-born British essayist, poet, novelist, and dramatist.
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Goldsmith brings about the Augustan idea that human nature is universal among all people. The Augustans believed that man had a specific place in the natural world. They also believed that this place never changed over time.
