Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical HeritageG.S. Rousseau Routledge, 2013 M10 31 - 412 páginas 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. |
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... perhaps even registering incomprehension! For earlier writers, notably pre-eighteenth century, the materials are much scarcer and the historical period has been extended, sometimes far beyond the writer's lifetime, in order to show the ...
... perhaps even registering incomprehension! For earlier writers, notably pre-eighteenth century, the materials are much scarcer and the historical period has been extended, sometimes far beyond the writer's lifetime, in order to show the ...
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... perhaps there are few characters Of purer dignity [who] have been described thanthat excellent pastor, rising above sorrow and oppression, and labouring for the conversion of those felons, into whose company he had been thrust by his ...
... perhaps there are few characters Of purer dignity [who] have been described thanthat excellent pastor, rising above sorrow and oppression, and labouring for the conversion of those felons, into whose company he had been thrust by his ...
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... perhaps least of all, and authors themselves (Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, Sterne) were viewed as unreal persons writing as machines for a larger machine, Grub Street. There was little, if any, attempt to understand the social milieu in ...
... perhaps least of all, and authors themselves (Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, Sterne) were viewed as unreal persons writing as machines for a larger machine, Grub Street. There was little, if any, attempt to understand the social milieu in ...
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... Perhaps one expects mindless observations from a Robinson, but, alas, instances of men of intelligence who likewise disappointed their readers, also prevail. Carlyle couldn't get aroused by this work and called it 'the best of all Idyls ...
... Perhaps one expects mindless observations from a Robinson, but, alas, instances of men of intelligence who likewise disappointed their readers, also prevail. Carlyle couldn't get aroused by this work and called it 'the best of all Idyls ...
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... perhaps Goldsmith's most understanding student, discovered at the heart of The Vicar a 'high, benevolent irony,'33 but the emphasis here is clearly on Goldsmith's magnanimous loftiness, on his munifrcent benevolence and certainly not on ...
... perhaps Goldsmith's most understanding student, discovered at the heart of The Vicar a 'high, benevolent irony,'33 but the emphasis here is clearly on Goldsmith's magnanimous loftiness, on his munifrcent benevolence and certainly not on ...
Contenido
1 | |
The Traveller or a Prospect of Society December
1764 | 29 |
The Vicar of Wakefield 27 March 1766 | 44 |
The Good Natured Man 29 January 1768 | 70 |
The Deserted Village 26 May 1770 | 76 |
She Stoops to Conquer March 1773 | 115 |
Retaliation I9 April 1774 posthumously published | 128 |
History of the Earth and Animated Nature 1 July 1774 posthumously published | 135 |
On Goldsmiths Life and Works | 157 |
Select Bibliography | 359 |
Index | 361 |
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