The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

INTRODUCTION

Two of the earlier, and, in some respects, more important _Memoirs_ of Oliver Goldsmith open with a quotation from one of his minor works, in which he refers to the generally uneventful life of the scholar. His own chequered career was a notable exception to this rule. He was born on the 10th of November, 1728, at Pallas, a village in the county of Longford in Ireland, ...