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Oliver Goldsmith ( 1730 ?– 1774 ) started his literary career as a hack writer in London, writing on any subject that would pay enough to keep his creditors at bay.
He came to belong to the circle of Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
His reputation depends mainly on a novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, a play, She Stoops to Conquer, and two long poems, The Traveller and The Deserted Village.
The last of these may be the first and best poem by an Irish poet in the English pastoral tradition.
It has been variously interpreted as a lament for the death of Irish village life under British rule and a protest at the effects of agricultural reform on the English rural landscape.
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