U7 L10 Oliver Goldsmith

Question 1

What were the reasons Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson were friends?

Answer 1

• same ideas
• same writing jobs
• wrote for same reasons
• tories
• Literary club
• admired Pope and Swift

Question 2

What did Goldsmith and Johnson have in common in terms for the reasons for writing?

Answer 2

• ease their poverty

- instruct/please public

Question 3

When and where was Goldsmith born?

Answer 3

Ireland, 1730

Question 4

Who was Goldsmith the son of?

Answer 4

rector of a small church

Question 5

What is a rector?

Answer 5

clergyman in charge of a parish

Question 6

From 1756, what were the different ways Goldsmith tried to earn a living?

Answer 6

• acting
• assisting apothecary
• doctoring slums
• proofreading
• teaching
• reviewing
• translating

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Question 7

Despite Goldsmith’s failed attempts to support himself, how did it influence his writing?

Answer 7

• teach him about human nature

- write entertainingly/clearly without stiff style

Question 8

From 1757 to 1762, how many periodicals did Goldsmith contribute to?

Answer 8

10

Question 9

In 1759, when Goldsmith was contributing to the periodical The Bee, what did he publish?

Answer 9

An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe

Question 10

From 1760 to 1761, which essays appeared in The Public Ledger?

Answer 10

Citizen of the World

Question 11

In what form were the Citizen of the World essays written in?

Answer 11

letters from a Chinese traveler in London to home

Question 12

What is apothecary?

Answer 12

preparing/selling drugs

Question 13

What message did Goldsmith present in the Citizen of the World?

Answer 13

one should be tolerant of the customs of other nations

Question 14

What does flat mouthpieces mean?

Answer 14

• character with a single idea/quality

- doesn’t surprise reader

Question 15

In 1764, what was the poem Goldsmith published? What theme does it tell?

Answer 15

• The Traveler
• excesses and happiness
• excess of anything can lead to unhappiness

Question 16

What poetic conventions did Goldsmith use in his poetry?

Answer 16

• poetic diction

- personification

Question 17

In 1770, what was the most famous poem Goldsmith published? What did it appeal against?

Answer 17

• The Deserted Village

- injustices and materialism of the age

Question 18

In 1766, what novel did Goldsmith publish? Why did he do it?

Answer 18

• The Vicar of Wakefield

- pay debt to landlady

Question 19

What does The Vicar of Wakefield portray?

Answer 19

• Primrose family make wealthy matches for daughters but oops we did a mistakey
• gots to learn the danger of false appearances, evils of ambition and moral strength
• horrors of prison life
• satirized ambitious females

Question 20

What was the play that Goldsmith wrote in 1771 and was produced in 1773?

Answer 20

She Stoops to Conquer

Question 21

What was the less successful play that was produced in 1768?

Answer 21

The Good Natured Man

Question 22

How did Goldsmith die?

Answer 22

• fever from bladder infection

- worry of 2000 pound debt

Question 23

Who wrote Goldsmith’s epitaph?

Answer 23

Samuel Johnson

Question 24

Goldsmith wrote The Deserted Village to describe the results of what?

Answer 24

Enclosure acts

Question 25

What has The Deserted Village been called?

Answer 25

pastoral elegy

Question 26

What is The Deserted Village written in? What does it also use?

Answer 26

• heroic couplet

- poetic diction and personification

Question 27

Does The Deserted Village sometimes repeat laments to build emotional impact?

Answer 27

yes

Question 28

What does Goldsmith emphasize in The Deserted Village?

Answer 28

rural self-reliance destroyed by greedy landowners and industrialization