Selected Writings of Oliver Goldsmith (Fyfield Books)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780415967433
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literature: Texts; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Collections; Literature: Classics; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Say, cruel Iris, pretty rake,
Description: " John Lucas reconsiders Thackeray's praise of Goldsmith as 'the most beloved of English writers', and reveals him as a more radical, formidable - and Irish - figure than the phrase suggests." "Goldsmith's 'wit, civility of tone and adroit handling of form' express, Lucas, argues, the author's intelligence, integrity and concern for a society that he saw disintegrating into competing interests. The introduction, detailed notes and afterword on the contemporary context present a Goldsmith whose moral seriousness is as necessary to twenty-first century society as it was to his own."--BOOK JACKET.