Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Fowler's King's English The King James
Bible Brewer's Phrase & Fable Frazer's Golden Bough Shelf of
Fiction The Age of Johnson The Vicar of Wakefield: the History
of the Book and its success INDEX OF ALL CHAPTERS The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes Volume
X. The Age of Johnson. The Vicar of Wakefield: the History of
the Book. was an immediate and enduring success; and Newbery, so
far as can be ascertained, gave Goldsmith £21 for it. Second,
third and fourth editions quickly followed until, in 1774, the
year of the authors death, a ninth was reached. Johnson, who
contributed nine of the lines, declared it to be the best poem
since the death of Pope, a verdict which, without disparagement
to Goldsmith, may also be accepted as evidence of the great mans
lack of sympathy with Gray, whose had appeared in the interval.
Perhaps the most marked result of was to draw attention to
Oliver Goldsmith, M. B., whose name, for the first time,
appeared on the title-pa