William Black
1) Goldsmith
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Language
English
Description
William Black (1841–1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. His biography of the Irish-born poet, dramatist and novelist Oliver Goldsmith (c.1728-1774) was published in 1878 as the sixth volume in the series English Men of Letters. The biography is a colorful one. As Black observes, Goldsmith, who was trained as a physician but whose entire career was in literature, possessed a 'happy knack of enjoying the present hour',
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