{"id":39,"date":"2013-11-25T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2013-12-11T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:12:00","slug":"oliver-goldsmith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/the-enlightenment\/oliver-goldsmith\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Goldsmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist who is best known for his novel, <em>The Vicar of Wakefield<\/em>.\u00a0 He is thought to have written the classic children\u2019s tale <em>The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes<\/em>.\u00a0 Goldsmith was described by contemporaries as prone to envy, a congenial but impetuous and disorganised personality who once planned to emigrate to America but failed because he missed his ship. Thomas De Quincey wrote of him &#8220;All the motion of Goldsmith&#8217;s nature moved in the direction of the true, the natural, the sweet, the gentle.&#8221;\u00a0 Oliver Goldsmith died at the age of 43 due to a misdiagnosis of a kidney infection.<\/p>\n<p><em>Notable works in ARB\u2019s collection:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Beauties of English Poesy (1767), 1st edition<\/li>\n<li>Essays (1765), 1st edition<\/li>\n<li>The Citizen of the World (1762), 1st edition, reissue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>For more works by Oliver Goldsmith, click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uclid.uc.edu\/search\/X?SEARCH=%28oliver%20goldsmith%29&amp;searchscope=39&amp;SORT=D&amp;b=buar\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Oliver-Goldsmith-Essays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74 aligncenter\" alt=\"Oliver Goldsmith-Essays\" src=\"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Oliver-Goldsmith-Essays-579x1024.jpg\" width=\"347\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Oliver-Goldsmith-Essays-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Oliver-Goldsmith-Essays-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Oliver-Goldsmith-Essays.jpg 1149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist who is best known for his novel, The Vicar of Wakefield.\u00a0 He is thought to have written the classic children\u2019s tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes.\u00a0 Goldsmith was described by contemporaries as prone to envy, a congenial but impetuous and disorganised personality who once planned to emigrate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/536"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/irish-lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}