What nationality was the writer Oliver Goldsmith?
Oliver Goldsmith novel "The Painted Veil" by W. Somerset Maugham, the last words of the poem "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog", "The dog it was that died", are the dying words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, one of the primary characters in the novel. Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an 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
Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet) Oliver Goldsmith (Canadian poet) Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861) was a Canadian poet born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. 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. Furthermore, his "Autobiography" is the first autobiography of a native Canadian writer. He is not to be confused with his great-uncle Oliver Goldsmith, to whose celebrated poem "The Deserted Village" "The Rising Village" is a response. In 1944 his name was added by the Canadian Government to