Author: Oliver Goldsmith,
Title: Goldsmith's The Deserted Village and other poems together with She Stoops to Conquer and The Good-Natured Man.
Description: NY, Macmillan, 1923. VG. Goldsmith is best revealed to us by the medium of that charming personality which everywhere pervades his writings. From the. moment when Goldsmith appears before us as a dancing urchin with poouting, pock-marked face, into which we wish more of his mind had been thrown, we are moved to say, as we look at his "penitential phiz," that here is a youth fated never to knit up the "ravell'd sleave of care." Like Steele he early became a "machine of pity." His incapacity of dealing with life's struggles, small-pox had marred his face and disposition, so that few felt the warmth of his smouldering fires of genius within that thickset drolly-shaped body and head. (from introduction by Whiteford) Owner name, edge wear, some writing on top fore-edge, stain at top of back fore-edge.

Keywords:


See more books from our catalog: Poetry