Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861) was a
Canadian poet born in
St. Andrews, New Brunswick
Saint Andrews (2016 population: 1,786) is a town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. The historic town is a national historic site of Canada, bearing many characteristics of a typical 18th century British colonial settlement, includin ...
. In 1822 he wrote some verses for an amateur theatre in Halifax. He is best known for ''The Rising Village'', which appeared in 1825. It was at once the first
book-length poem published by a native English-Canadian and the first book-length publication in
England by a Canadian poet.
[Gerald Lynch]
Introduction to ''The Rising Village,''
Canadian Poetry Press, UWO, Web, Apr. 13, 2011. Furthermore, his ''Autobiography'' is the first
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of a native
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. He is not to be confused with his great-uncle
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is best known for his novel ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1766), his pastoral poem ''The Deserted Village'' (1770), and his pl ...
, to whose celebrated poem ''
The Deserted Village'' ''The Rising Village'' is a response.
In 1944 his name was added by the Canadian Government to its list of
Persons of National Historic Significance.
See also
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Canadian literature
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Canadian poetry
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References
External links
The Rising Villageby Oliver Goldsmith (full text).
A Short Biography of Oliver Goldsmith St. Thomas University St. Thomas University or University of St. Thomas may refer to:
* Saint Thomas Aquinas University, Colombia
*Saint Thomas Aquinas University of the North, Tucumán province, Argentina
*St. Thomas University (Canada), Fredericton, New Brunswick
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, at
New Brunswick Literature Encyclopedia NBLE
Goldsmith and the rising village by D. M. R. Bentley, in "Studies in Canadian Literature", vol. 15, 1, 1990, English or French;
University of New Brunswick
19th-century Canadian poets
Canadian male poets
Writers from New Brunswick
1794 births
1861 deaths
Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
19th-century Canadian male writers
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