Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), 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-Sho... More

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  • Nov 10, 1730

Date of death:

  • Apr 4, 1774 (age 43 years)

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  • Person

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  • Goldsmith saw life from the comic point of view, enabling him to gain success by making his reader laugh.

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  • literature

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  • novelist
  • playwright
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