Author: James WhitesidePublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Oliver Goldsmith, His Friends and Critics
Author: James WhitesidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Biographies. Criticisms. Later collected essays
Author: Oliver GoldsmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Poems. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-letters
Author: Oliver GoldsmithPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary
Author: James WhitesidePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular
Author: Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Oliver Goldsmith
Author: G.S. RousseauPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136172394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
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.
Brothers of the Quill
Author: Norma ClarkePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impoverished hack writers—before he became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors. Norma Clarke tells the extraordinary story of this destitute scribbler turned gentleman of letters as it unfolds in the early days of commercial publishing, when writers’ livelihoods came to depend on the reading public, not aristocratic patrons. Clarke examines a network of writers radiating outward from Goldsmith: the famous and celebrated authors of Dr. Johnson’s “Club” and those far less fortunate “brothers of the quill” trapped in Grub Street. Clarke emphasizes Goldsmith’s sense of himself as an Irishman, showing that many of his early literary acquaintances were Irish émigrés: Samuel Derrick, John Pilkington, Paul Hiffernan, and Edward Purdon. These writers tutored Goldsmith in the ways of Grub Street, and their influence on his development has not previously been explored. Also Irish was the patron he acquired after 1764, Robert Nugent, Lord Clare. Clarke places Goldsmith in the tradition of Anglo-Irish satirists beginning with Jonathan Swift. He transmuted troubling truths about the British Empire into forms of fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains perceptible, if just barely, beneath an equanimous English surface. To read Brothers of the Quill is to be taken by the hand into the darker corners of eighteenth-century Grub Street, and to laugh and cry at the absurdities of the writing life.
