BIBLIOGRAPHY I. BIOGRAPHY BLACK, WILLIAM. Life of Goldsmith. English Men of Letters Series. 1878. Interesting account of the man. BOSWELL, JAMES. Life of Johnson. 1791. Full of information concerning Goldsmith, but the information is colored by personal prejudice. DOBSON, AUSTIN. Life of Goldsmith. Great Writers Series. 1888. Best brief life. FOSTER, JOHN. 1848. Bibliography. The Life and Adventures of Goldsmith. Generally recognized as the standard biography. HOWITT, WILLIAM. Homes and Haunts of the British Poets. 1857. Goldsmith, pp. 195–328. IRVING, WASHINGTON. umes. 1844. The Life of Goldsmith. Two vol Fascinating, because of the ease and charm of style. MOORE, FRANKFORT. The Jessamy Bride. A Novel. 1890. A judicial summary of Goldsmith's character. PRIOR, SIR JAMES. The Life of Goldsmith from a Variety SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Life and Adventures of Oliver Gold 1805-1809. Goldsmith, Volume V., pp. 54-75. General criticism of work. CAMPBELL, THOMAS. Specimens of the British Poets. 1841. Interpretative criticism of Goldsmith's works. DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Complete Works. In fourteen volumes. 1853-1860. Goldsmith, Volume VI., p. 194. An interesting criticism of the position of Goldsmith as an eighteenth-century author. FORSYTH, WILLIAM. The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century. 1871. Goldsmith, pp. 305–312. HUNT, LEIGH. Classic Tales, Serious and Lively. 1806. Goldsmith, pp. 41-80. Analytic criticism of Goldsmith's genius. JEAFFRESON, J. CORDY. Novels and Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria. Two volumes. 1858. Vol. I., pp. 223-257. MINTO, WILLIAM. A Manual of English Prose Literature. 1886. Goldsmith, pp. 461–473. Analysis and criticism of his style. THACKERAY, WILLIAM M. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. 1853. Goldsmith, pp. 264–322. Eloquent appreciation of his humor. III. LITERARY HISTORY BEERS, HENRY AUGUSTUS. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century. 1899. BESANT, WAlter. London in the Eighteenth Century. 1882. DOBSON, AUSTIN. Eighteenth Century Vignettes. 1889. ture. 1901. HUTTON, LAURENCE. Literary Landmarks of London. 1885. PHELPS, WILLIAM LYNN. The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement. 1893. DEDICATION TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH. DEAR SIR, I am sensible that the friendship between us can acquire no new force from the ceremonies of a dedication; and perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts, which you decline giving with your own. But as a part of this poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland, the whole can now with propriety be inscribed only to you. It will also throw a light upon many parts of it, when the reader understands that it is addressed to a man who, despising fame and fortune, has retired early to happiness and obscurity, with an income of forty pounds a year. I now perceive, my dear brother, the wisdom of your humble choice. You have entered upon a sacred office, where the harvest is great, and the laborers are but few, while you have left the field of ambition, where the laborers are many and the harvests not worth carrying away. But of all kinds of ambition, - what from the refinement of the times, from differing systems of criticism, and from the divisions of poetry, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest. Poetry makes a principal amusement among unpolished nations; but in a country verging to the extremes of refinement, painting and music come in for a share. As 2 |