Oliver Goldsmith

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Standard Name: Goldsmith, Oliver

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Intertextuality and Influence Hannah Cowley
In the plot, marriage for love triumphs over arranged marriage: but Letitia does not reject Doricourt (to whom she was engaged when very young), but converts him. He would prefer in principle to keep his...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Jane Vardill
Many of AJV 's poems reflect her learning. She incorporated lines of Greek in An Arctic Islander in London (October 1818), and based La Morte d'Arthur (European Magazine 79 (1821): 553-5, with annotations), on...
Intertextuality and Influence Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
The poem is one of exile, owing something to Goldsmith 's The Traveller, combining observation of nature with personal feeling: My weary footsteps hoped for rest in vain, / Steep on steep in rude...
Intertextuality and Influence Maria Edgeworth
Angelina, generally treated as a descendant of Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote, shows just how permeable is the boundary between ME 's juvenile and adult fiction. It warns against influence from the wrong...
Intertextuality and Influence Eleanor Sleath
The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This novel contains the first appearance of MEB 's serially-employed character, the proto-sensation novelist Sigismund Smith (although that bitter term of reproach, sensation, had not been invented for the terror of romancers in the...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Maria Mackenzie
A title-page quotation from John MiltonParadise Lost puts together, with an only an ellipsis between them, the persuasive powers of the fallen angel Belial (who could make the worse appear / The better reason) and...
Intertextuality and Influence Medora Gordon Byron
The Englishman ties its first sentence to a quotation from Goldsmith 's Citizen of the World about spontaneous liking for certain individuals. Its first sentence is This spontaneous friendship is not more the offering of...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Jacson
Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
The favourable review in the Literary Magazine (with which Johnson was closely connected) probably owed something to his influence.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press.
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Oliver Goldsmith , reviewing Lennox's work for the Monthly Review in July 1757, makes...
Literary responses Sarah Wentworth Morton
Julie Ellison , who traces in Ouâbi the influence of male British poets like Thomson and Goldsmith , and their sentimental, topographical, masculinist traditions,
Ellison, Julie. “Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton”. Subjects and Citizens, edited by Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University Press, pp. 57-86.
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judges that the poem's vision of racial harmony depends on...
Literary Setting Regina Maria Roche
The heroine suffers under not one but two bad mother-figures, neither of whom is her birth mother. It opens with Greville, a country curate whose spirit has been wounded by the vice and deceit of...
Occupation Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson took up a governess job with Margaret Featherstone or Featherstonehaugh of Bracklin Castle, Westmeath.
Literary critic James Newcomer , who chooses the second version of the employers' family name, mistakenly says this...
Occupation Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
She had suddenly conceived the ambition of becoming an artist (the only profession open to her, as a girl of good family) when she heard that this was the choice of the cousin with whom...
Publishing George Eliot
In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood , Lewes invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith (author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen . The firm of Blackwood turned out to be...

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