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Oliver Goldsmith With Introd Notes Chronological Summaries Etc
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

PREFACE. As in the case of my edition of Macaulays Life of Johnson, the notes to this fife of Goldsmiti consist mainly of illustrative details drawn from writers to whom Macaulay was indebted for his materials. Macaulays outlines are, as ever, masterly but the general effect of his sketch is somewhat meagre and bare compared with that of his Sam... more »uel Johnson. It does riot show the same acquaintance, nor the same sympathy, with the subject. But, in spite of this, it possesses the charm of an artistic composition. It transports us in imagination back to the age of Goldsmith it brings us and him menschlich nuher, to use Schillers fine expression it makes him for us a real living person. In reading Macaulays words we become personally interested in Goldsmith this persotial interest excites a desire of closer acquaintance, and makes 11s welcome every detail which helps to fill up, without blurring, the picture. Boswell, with whose book he was intimate, was for Rfacaulay a considerable source of information for honest Goldsmith is a conspicuous figure on Boswells canvas. But it was naturally from Goldsmiths biographers that he drew most largely and he seems to have drawn not from the earliest of these, such as Bishop Percy and Malone-nor from Prior, who deserves indubitably the first place on account of his original research and scrupulous accuracy-but from the later biographies of Washington Irving and Forster, almost all his facts, and many of his expressions, being derived from these two writers and from Boswell. For this reason-and because they are easily procurable-I have made especial use of Washington Irvings and Forsters accounts of Goldsmith for purposes of illustration, and in case of quotations from Boswell or Goldsmith I have made reference to the Globe Editions, which are also fairly inexpensive. Of the almost innumerable anecdotes and other details at my disposal, I have winliowed out those which seemed to me to best supplement Macaulays narrative. These I have tried to so arrange and connect as to form, together with the text, a fairly continuous account. From the standpoint-of the shorter the better the length of my notes, as compared with that of the text, will appear outrageous. But it should be remembered that the object of this edition is not merely to help an examination candidate to get up the text, but to give as complete a picture as possible of Goldsmith to those who may not have time or inclination to work their way through thousands of pages. I trust that the Chronological Summaries will be of use in affording birds-eye views of the lives of Goldsmith and Macaulay. In the Introduction I have also given an account of tho period of Macaulays life in which he wrote the series of biographical sketches to which his Oliver Goldsmith belongs. But I should be sorry if by supplying these few facts articles

ISBN-13: 9781408636480
ISBN-10: 1408636484
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 98
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