Oliver Goldsmith : the critical heritage / edited by G.S. Rousseau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian)

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774--Criticism and interpretation.

Goldsmith, Oliver.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (692 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; General Editor's Preface; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronological Table; Introduction; I:; The Vicar of Wakefield; II: Goldsmith as Poet; III: The Drama; IV: Conclusion; Notes; The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society (December 1764); 1. Dr Johnson, Critical Review, December 1764; 2. Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine, December 1764; 3. Unsigned notice, London Chronicle, 18-20 December 1764; 4. John Langhorne, Monthly Review, January 1765; The Vicar of Wakefield (27 March 1766)

5. Unsigned notice, Monthly Review, May 17666. Unsigned review, Critical Review, June 1766; 7. Mme Riccoboni, in a letter to David Garrick on the plot of The Vicar of Wakefield, 11 September 1766; 8. Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to Her Absent Daughters, 1767; 9. Fanny Burney compares The Vicar of Wakefield with other sentimental novels, 1768; 10. Two brief estimates of Goldsmith's novel, 1776, 1785; (a) Unsigned review in Hugh Kelly's Babler, July 1776; (b) Clara Reeve's estimate of The Vicar of Wakefield in The Progress of Romance, 1785

11. Mrs Jane West commenting on 'criminal conversation' in The Vicar of Wakefield, in Letters to a Young Lady: in which the duties and characters of women are considered . . . 180612. Edward Mangin compares Goldsmith and Richardson as novelists in An Essay on Light Reading, 1808; 13. Byron comments on Schlegel's estimate of The Vicar of Wakefield, 29 January 1821; 14. George Eliot on story telling and narrative art in The Vicar of Wakefield, in Essays and Leaves from a Notebook, 1884; 15. Henry James's introduction to The Vicar of Wakefield, 1900; The Good Natured Man (29 January 1768)

16. Two early reviews of The Good Natured Man, 1768, 1772(a) Unsigned review, Critical Review, February 1768; (b) Sir Nicholas Nipclose [pseudonym] commenting on Goldsmith and other theatrical delinquents in 1768, in The Theatres. A Poetical Discussion, 1772; 17. George Daniel on The Good Natured Man, in an edition of the British Theatre published by John Cumberland in 48 vols, 1829; The Deserted Village (26 May 1770); 18. Unsigned review, Critical Review, June 1770; 19. John Hawkesworth's review, Monthly Review, June 1770; 20. An anonymous and 'impartial review,' London Magazine, June 1770

21. Anthony King's poem 'The Frequented Village,' a poetic statement about The Deserted Village, 1771[?]22. Corbyn Morris's rhapsodic verses 'On Reading Dr. Goldsmith's Poem, the Deserted Village,' published in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit, 1784; 23. Edmund Burke on Goldsmith's pastoral images, in a letter to Richard Shackleton, 6 May 1780; 24. John Scott writes an early literary appraisal of The Deserted Village, in Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets, 1785; 25. Edward Mangin on Goldsmith's greatness as a moral instructor, in An Essay on Light Reading, 1808

26. Johann Wilhelm von Goethe on the pictures evoked by The Deserted Village, 1821

Notes:

First published in 1974.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-17246-7

0-415-86786-X

1-315-00452-6

1-136-17239-4

9781315004525

OCLC:

863822303