“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.”
About Oliver Goldsmith
c. 10 November 1728–4 April 1774
Oliver Goldsmith, born probably on 10 November 1728 and dead on 4 April 1774, lived only forty-five years, yet he became one of the most various, humane, and enduring voices in eighteenth-century English literature. He was an Irishman who made his reputation in London, a clergyman’s son who never settled into a…