Oliver Goldsmith
See also: Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith is a writer Irish born with Elphin, Comté of Roscommon (Ireland) the November 10th 1728 and died with London the April 4th 1774.
Novelist, poet, playwright and English essay writer of Irish origin. After studies of Theology, he studies the Médecine with Edinburgh and Leyde, then voyage in France, Suisse and Italy (1755 - 1756). He settles with London where the practice of its art leaves it impecunious; several other professions do not succeed to him either.
He launches out in the letters in 1758 and founds the review the Bee in 1759. Founding member of the Club (1765) of Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith publishes the Traveller (1764), poem which returns it enough celebrates so that it can make appear a novel written in 1761 - 1762, the Minister of Wakefield (often translated under the title the Vicar of Wakefield , 1766), his masterpiece. Success is slow to come, but it still lasts. It is a novel of family at the same time as a novel of introspection. Its sentimentalism, delivered puritanism, is human, humane, ethics even, and will be able to lead to the romanticism; its realism is psychological as much as social; its style admirably adapted to the domestic adventures that it animates of its charitable irony, of its clear-sighted good-naturedness.
It is buried with the Abbaye of Westminster to London, with the “corner of the poets”.
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