id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-49 Oliver Goldsmith - Wikipedia .html text/html 4006 491 72 Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, where his father was the Anglican curate of the parish of Forgney, or at the residence of his maternal grandparents, at the Smith Hill House near Elphin in County Roscommon, where his grandfather Oliver Jones was a clergyman and master of the Elphin diocesan school, and where Oliver studied.[1] When Goldsmith was two years old, his father was appointed the rector of the parish of "Kilkenny West" in County Westmeath. The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith (1887), edited by Austin Dobson Poems and essays, Oliver Goldsmith, 1839, (William Smith, London) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-49.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-49.txt