Sunday, March 28, 2010

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)

Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 - 4 April 1774) was an Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He also wrote "An History of the Earth and Animated Nature". He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes".



[The Vicar Of Wakefield]


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