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Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was a writer, poet, and physician famous for his novel, The Vicar of Wakefield(1776). His first successful literary work was The Traveller (1764), a poem about British rule.[1] Like Jonathan Swift, Goldsmith criticized society, but he did not use satire like Swift.[1] Goldsmith's greatest poem, The Deserted Village (1770), was a sad poem about how country life was being destroyed by landowners.[1] The same theme is inside The Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith's biggest work at that time was a collection of soft-satire essays on English life seen by an imaginary Chinese visitor. He also wrote two plays, The Good Natured Man (1768), and She Stoops to Conquer (1773).[1](He is also thought to have written the classic children's story, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes.)
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