The Oliver Goldsmith Page

( 1730?-1774 ) Major Works
The Citizen of the World ( 1760-61 ). Goldsmith puts criticism of English manners and mores into the letters written by a fictional Chinese gentleman, Lien Chi Altangi. This work shows the influence of Montesquieu's Persian Letters. One may well wonder where Goldy got the name Altangi.
The Traveler ( 1764 ). The traveler-narrator fails to find happiness abroad and concludes that it is to be found in one's own mind: " Our own felicity we make or find."
The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ). On Line
The Deserted Village ( 1770 ). Nostalgic poem about the passing of a simpler, happier, rural past. On Line
The Life of Richard Nash ( 1762 ). Beau Nash, Master of Ceremonies at Bath, was an institution in Eighteenth Century England.
She Stoops to Conquer ( 1773 ). On Line from Bartleby.
Collected Letters. Edited by Katherine C. Balderston. Cambridge, 1928.

About Goldsmith
Ralph M. Wardle, Oliver Goldsmith. Kansas, 1957.
Introductory Note from Bartleby.
Goldsmith Criticism from Internet Public Library.

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