Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was born in Ireland, in 1728 or 1730 according to the sources, at an uncertain date and in an uncertain place. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he studied medicine in Edinburgh without obtaining a degree, then left in 1756 for the Continent before settling in London, where he lived by his pen. A friend of Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and Edmund Burke, he was among the first members of the circle that formed around the first of them in 1764. An essayist, novelist, poet and playwright, he died in 1774.

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• NovelThe Vicar of WakefieldOliver Goldsmith · 1766Literature