English Literature / Unit 11 ENL 1023 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Oliver Goldsmith
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The idea
Oliver Goldsmith wrote one novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, of seventeen sixty-six; a poem, The Deserted Village, of seventeen seventy, mourning a village emptied for landscape gardens; and the comedy She Stoops to Conquer, in which Kate Hardcastle poses as a barmaid to win the shy Marlow.
In practice
A vicar, a village, a disguised heroine.
Where people slip
Goldsmith worked in three genres.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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