The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith
This is the first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (17281774), one of the major literary figures of the eighteenth century. Containing extensive introductory and contextual material, this volume is essential for those interested in Goldsmith and his circle, including Samuel Johnson and David Garrick.
'The editors, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy, have undertaken considerable original research in updating and adding to Katherine Balderston's 1928 Cambridge University Press collection of Goldsmith LettersLike Balderston before them, Griffin and O'Shaughnessy confront a slender body of surviving letters but build a fascinating story from what remains.' Claire Connolly, The Irish Times
'It has seldom seemed necessary to consider his Irishness, but the editors of this new edition of Goldsmith's letters, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy, urge its importance, and they are surely right.' Norma Clarke, London Review of Books
'In their valuable introduction, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy discuss the unexplained threads that run through the letters, the self-confessed flaws of character, the homesickness for Ireland, the bitter tone, the obsequious requests for money … Reading the letters should send us straight back to the works to be surprised by Goldsmith's clarity, relevance and entirely individual sense of the absurd.' Kate Chisholm, The Times Literary Supplement
'Indispensable … this excellent and long-overdue new edition of his letters brings Goldsmith and the people and forces shaping his work into considerably sharper focus.' Maureen Harkin, Eighteenth-Century Ireland
'Superb … Griffin and O'Shaugnessy are a formidable team and their work, given the complexity of Goldmsith studies, amounts to a significant breakthrough for Goldsmith scholarship.' Fergus O'Ferrell, Dublin Review of Books
'It has seldom seemed necessary to consider his Irishness, but the editors of this new edition of Goldsmith's letters, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy, urge its importance, and they are surely right.' Norma Clarke, London Review of Books
'In their valuable introduction, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy discuss the unexplained threads that run through the letters, the self-confessed flaws of character, the homesickness for Ireland, the bitter tone, the obsequious requests for money … Reading the letters should send us straight back to the works to be surprised by Goldsmith's clarity, relevance and entirely individual sense of the absurd.' Kate Chisholm, The Times Literary Supplement
'Indispensable … this excellent and long-overdue new edition of his letters brings Goldsmith and the people and forces shaping his work into considerably sharper focus.' Maureen Harkin, Eighteenth-Century Ireland
'Superb … Griffin and O'Shaugnessy are a formidable team and their work, given the complexity of Goldmsith studies, amounts to a significant breakthrough for Goldsmith scholarship.' Fergus O'Ferrell, Dublin Review of Books
Michael Griffin is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Limerick. He is the author of Enlightenment in Ruins: The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith (2013). He has also edited The Selected Writings of Thomas Dermody (2012), and The Collected Works of Laurence Whyte (2016). David O'Shaughnessy is an associate professor in English at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of William Godwin and the Theatre (2010), editor of The Plays of William Godwin (2010) and co-editor of the online edition of Godwin's diary. He has also edited a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) on the London Irish of the eighteenth century.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107474543 |
| ISBN 10 | 110747454X |
| Title | The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2025-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 234 |
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