Oliver Goldsmith Elegies

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This paper explores two rather unusual grief poems. The elegies are unusual in their mood (they are somewhat upbeat as opposed to the more subdued style usually found in such poems). The paper also shows how the elegies border on Romanticism and may be seen as very much tongue-in-cheek.

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"Oliver Goldsmith is an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist. He was born on November 10th, 1730, in Pallas, Ireland, the son of an Anglican curate. He received a general education at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied medicine at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden. He subsequently wandered through Europe, supporting himself by playing the flute and by begging. Later, in England, he practiced medicine, taught, and eventually worked for various publishers, producing literary works to order."

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