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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... English literature were altogether different. This is stated not to derogate from their achievement but to note that their thinking will not satisfy us, nor vice versa. Early reviewers of Goldsmith's works satisfied their audiences as ...
... English literature were altogether different. This is stated not to derogate from their achievement but to note that their thinking will not satisfy us, nor vice versa. Early reviewers of Goldsmith's works satisfied their audiences as ...
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... English Literature and by index-hunting, but they would turn up nothing fresh, nothing original, nothing that has not been said here; and the sorry state (sorry from our vantage in this decade) is that truly original thinking about ...
... English Literature and by index-hunting, but they would turn up nothing fresh, nothing original, nothing that has not been said here; and the sorry state (sorry from our vantage in this decade) is that truly original thinking about ...
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... English. A large number of inferior critics and translators, many romantically inspired by all things British, sang Goldsmith's praises as they had extolled Richardson and Fielding before him; yet in contrast, a minuscule part of the ...
... English. A large number of inferior critics and translators, many romantically inspired by all things British, sang Goldsmith's praises as they had extolled Richardson and Fielding before him; yet in contrast, a minuscule part of the ...
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... English prose, no one to my mind can beat Goldsmith. I take The Vicar of Wakefield to be the high-water mark of English . . . To me dear 'Goldie' is the Mozart of English prose—the feckless, inspired ne'er-do-well ofeighteenthcentury ...
... English prose, no one to my mind can beat Goldsmith. I take The Vicar of Wakefield to be the high-water mark of English . . . To me dear 'Goldie' is the Mozart of English prose—the feckless, inspired ne'er-do-well ofeighteenthcentury ...
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... [English] language is read.'25 Throughout the Regency and Victorian periods one discovers critics vacillating between enraptured praise and mild approbation. Some, like Hazlitt,26 were brief and insipid in their comments; others like ...
... [English] language is read.'25 Throughout the Regency and Victorian periods one discovers critics vacillating between enraptured praise and mild approbation. Some, like Hazlitt,26 were brief and insipid in their comments; others like ...
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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