ABSTRACT
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to reaad the material themselves.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |28 pages
Introduction
part |15 pages
The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society
part |26 pages
The Vicar Of Wakefield
chapter 7|3 pages
Mme Riccoboni in a letter to David Garrick on the plot of The Vicar of Wakefield
11 September 1766
chapter 8|1 pages
Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to Her Absent Daughters
1767, 1773, 1790, 1794
chapter 11|2 pages
Mrs Jane West commenting on ‘criminal conversation' in The Vicar of Wakefield, in Letters to a Young Lady: in which the duties and characters of women are considered …
1806, 1811 (4th ed.), iii, Letter xi
chapter 12|3 pages
Edward Mangin compares Goldsmith and Richardson as novelists, in An Essay on Light Reading
1808, 117–29
chapter 13|1 pages
Byron comments on Friedrich von Schlegel's estimate of The Vicar of Wakefield
29 January 1821
chapter 14|2 pages
George Eliot on story telling and narrative art in The Vicar of Wakefield, in Essays and Leaves from a Notebook
Edinburgh, 1884, 286–7
part |6 pages
The Good Natured Man
part |39 pages
The Deserted Village
chapter 21|2 pages
Anthony King's poem ‘The Frequented Village,' a poetic statement about The Deserted Village
Published by Godwin, 1771 [?], 18–19
chapter 22|1 pages
Corbyn Morris's rhapsodic verses ‘On Reading Dr. Goldsmith's Poem, the Deserted Village,’ published in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit
New edition, 1784, vi, 95
chapter 23|2 pages
Edmund Burke on Goldsmith's pastoral images, in a letter to Richard Shackleton
6 May 1780
chapter 25|4 pages
Edward Mangin on Goldsmith's greatness as a moral instructor, in An Essay on Light Reading
1808, 159–76
part |13 pages
She Stoops To Conquer
part |7 pages
Retaliation
chapter 33|2 pages
Unsigned notice in the London Chronicle containing an epitaph on Goldsmith
7–9 July 1774
part |22 pages
History Of The Earth, And Animated Nature
chapter 35|18 pages
Descriptive and analytic review, Critical Review
August-November 1774, xxxviii, 97–105, 220–7, 258–66, 329–40
chapter 36|4 pages
Edward Bancroft attacks Goldsmith's History of the Earth, Monthly Review
April 1775, lii, 310–14
part |202 pages
On Goldsmith's Life And Works
chapter 38|2 pages
James Beattie on Goldsmith's envy of other authors, in A London Diary
14 June 1773
chapter 39|5 pages
Courtney Melmoth writing about Goldsmith's greatness on the day of his funeral, 9 April 1774, The Tears of Genius, Occasioned by the Death of Dr. Goldsmith
Printed for T. Becket, April 1774, 1–13
chapter 40|4 pages
A tribute to Goldsmith as a poet by John Tait, author of The Druid's Monument
Printed for T. Davies, 1774
chapter 41|1 pages
Edmund Burke writes a fitting monument to Goldsmith, in a letter to Thomas Davies
28 June 1776
chapter 43|8 pages
Sir Joshua Reynolds on the total genius of Goldsmith in a sketch of his character
1776[?]
chapter 44|2 pages
Samuel Foote on Goldsmith as a dramatist and a person, in Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq.
1777
chapter 45|2 pages
John Watkinson relates the circumstances of Goldsmith's early life and his struggle to write, in A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland
Printed by W. Strahan, 1777, 286–8, 437
chapter 46|4 pages
Words on Goldsmith's writing career and poetic achievement by Edmond Malone, in the preface to Poems and Plays by Oliver Goldsmith
1777, 178o, v–viii
chapter 47|2 pages
Boswell reports Johnson's account of Goldsmith's work, in Boswell's Life of Johnson
25 April 1778
chapter 48|1 pages
Madame D'Arblay's (Fanny Burney) high opinion of The Vicar of Wakefield in her Diary
August 1778
chapter 49|8 pages
Thomas Davies on Goldsmith's life and art, in Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq…. in Two Volumes
1780, 1808, ii, 141–62
chapter 51|1 pages
Two poems on Goldsmith by David Garrick, in The Poetical Works of David Garrick
Printed by George Kearsley, 1785, ii, 532–3
chapter 52|1 pages
Thomas Barnard, Dean of Derry, on Goldsmith's rivalry with Garrick, in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit
Printed for J. Debrett, 1786, ii, 254
chapter 53|3 pages
Hester Lynch Piozzi on Goldsmith's relations with Johnson in the ‘Literary Club,' printed in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
T. Cadell, 1786, 119–22, 178–81, 245
chapter 55|2 pages
Goldsmith given credit for having predicted the French Revolution, in an unsigned article in European Magazine
February 1792, xxi, 88
chapter 59|5 pages
Thomas Percy's memoir of Goldsmith, in an introduction to The Miscellaneous Works of Goldsmith, M.B.… in Four Volumes
1801, 1806, i, 102–18
chapter 60|7 pages
William Mudford on Goldsmith's achievement in poetry, in a preface to Mudford's Essays
4 June 1804
chapter 61|2 pages
Richard Cumberland on Goldsmith's dramatic difficulties, in Memoirs of Richard Cumberland
1806–7, 366–9
chapter 62|1 pages
Goldsmith contrasted with George Crabbe by Robert Southey in a letter to J. Neville White
30 September 1808
chapter 63|1 pages
Unsigned preface to an early American edition of Goldsmith's works
Boston, 1809, i, 82–9
chapter 67|5 pages
Wilhelm Adolf Lindau, German critic and author, introduces The Vicar of Wakefield in a new edition
Dresden 1825, v–xx
chapter 68|6 pages
Washington Irving comments on Goldsmith's life and writings
1825, 1840, expanded version 1849, New York, 1859
chapter 69|3 pages
Extracts from Joseph Cradock's Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs dealing with Goldsmith
1826
chapter 70|5 pages
Sir Walter Scott writes about Goldsmith's works in Biographical and Critical Notes of Eminent Novelists
1827, 1829, 162–78
chapter 71|1 pages
Goethe on Goldsmith's irony and vision of man in The Vicar of Wakefield, in a letter to his friend Zelter
25 December 1829
chapter 72|1 pages
Anecdotes of Goldsmith by a friend and enemy, George Colman (the younger) in his Random Records
1830, i, 110–13
chapter 73|1 pages
Thomas Carlyle on the poetry of the eighteenth century—especially Goldsmith, in an essay on Goethe
1832, 1838, 1839, 1840
chapter 75|17 pages
Goldsmith's first Victorian biographer: selections from James Prior s Life of Oliver Goldsmith … in Two Volumes
Printed for John Murray, 1837
chapter 76|1 pages
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the poetry of Goldsmith, in a letter to Hugh Stuart Boyd
1842[?]
chapter 77|2 pages
The anonymous author of ‘Table Talk' in the Morning Post, London, comments on Goldsmith's indifference to sublime nature in The Traveller
18 December 1844, 5
chapter 78|5 pages
George Lillie Craik on Goldsmith's plot in The Vicar of Wakefield, in Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England
1845, v, 160–7
chapter 80|13 pages
Leigh Hunt's pronouncements on Goldsmith the genius and writer, in Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets
1846 (2nd Ed., 1846)
chapter 81|8 pages
George Lewes reviewing Forster's Life of Oliver Goldsmith (1848), in the British Quarterly
1 August 1848, viii, 1–25
chapter 82|5 pages
Henry George Bohn on Goldsmith's ‘moral character' and its influence on his writings, prefaced to an edition of The Works of Goldsmith
1848, 1884 (with corrections), i, 64–76
chapter 83|9 pages
W. M. Thackeray and Thomas de Quincey on aspects of Goldsmith's genius and ‘goodness'
1853–4
chapter 84|6 pages
From Thomas Babington Macaulay's life of Goldsmith in Encylopedia Britannica, eighth edition
1856, x, 705–9
chapter 85|4 pages
David Masson on Goldsmith's ‘English style,' from a memoir prefixed to the Globe edition of Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
August 1868, first published in 1883, then slightly changed in 1907, lviii–lx
