Written by Scottish novelist William Black (1841-98), this
biography of the Irish-born poet, dramatist and novelist Oliver
Goldsmith (c.1728-74) was published in 1878 as the sixth book in
the first series of English Men of Letters. Goldsmith is best known
for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and the play She Stoops
to Conquer (1771), as well as his close association with Samuel
Johnson, James Boswell, and William Hogarth. The biography is a
colourful one: as Black observes, Goldsmith, who was trained as a
physician but whose whole career was in literature, possessed a
'happy knack of enjoying the present hour', and his pursuit of
pleasure frequently left him in debt. Black himself was one of the
most prolific and popular writers of his day; a collected edition
of his works published 1892-4 ran to twenty-six volumes.
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