William Black

Goldsmith (eBook, ePUB)

English Men of Letters Series

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Goldsmith: English Men of Letters Series by William Black is a reflective and evocative biography about a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist, and poet, who is noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays. Excerpt: "Innocently to amuse the imagination in this dream of life is wisdom." So wrote Oliver Goldsmith; and surely among those who have earned the world's gratitude by this ministration he must be accorded a conspicuous place. If, in these delightful writings of his, he mostly avoids the darker problems of existence..."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Good Press
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 4064066163143
• Artikelnr.: 58755579

Autorenporträt

William Black was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his lifetime, Black's works were extremely popular and compared favorably to those of Anthony Trollope. However, his renown and popularity did not last long into the twentieth century. William was born to James Black and his second wife, Caroline Conning. He was educated as a landscape painter, which affected his literary career. As a writer, he was recognized for his rich, atmospheric depictions of landscapes and seascapes in works like White Wings: A Yachting Romance (1880). He moved to London at the age of 23, after gaining some journalism experience in Glasgow. He began working for the Morning Star, then the Daily News, where he rose to the position of assistant editor. He wrote a weekly serial for The Graphic. During the Austria-Prussian War, he worked as a war correspondent. Black's debut novel, James Merle, was published in 1864 and had little popularity. Black then denied it and allegedly purchased copies to destroy them.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introductory
2. School and college
3. Idleness, and foreign travel
4. Early struggles - hack-writing
5. Beginning of authorship - The Bee
6. Personal traits
7. The Citizen of the World - Beau Nash
8. The arrest
9. The Traveller
10. Miscellaneous writing
11. The Vicar of Wakefield
12. The Good-natured Man
13. Goldsmith in society
14. The Deserted Village
15. Occasional writing
16. She Stoops to Conquer
17. Increasing difficulties - the end.