Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , the publication ofwhich in 17()5 may be said to have dealt a fatal, though notan immediately fatal, blow, both to the classical and the semi-classical schools, may also be said to account for a certain Availof partition which stands between the poets just mentionedon the one hand, and Goldsmith and Chatterton on the Goldsmith was born as early as 172N, he did notwrite, or at least publish, a
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , the publication ofwhich in 17()5 may be said to have dealt a fatal, though notan immediately fatal, blow, both to the classical and the semi-classical schools, may also be said to account for a certain Availof partition which stands between the poets just mentionedon the one hand, and Goldsmith and Chatterton on the Goldsmith was born as early as 172N, he did notwrite, or at least publish, at all early ; and his • Traveller did. riwtu: C/its(tSTOKE POGKS not appear till 1764 (nominally next year), his Vicar ofWakefield till 1766, his Deserted Village till 1770, andShe Stoojjs to Conquer till 1778. Next year Goldsmith died,leaving, besides the famous things just mentioned, a mass ofagreeable hack-work and some charming literature—the lightpoems of Retaliation, the Haunch of Venison, and others,the exquisite half-Addisonian, half-French essays of the Citizenof the World, and the Bee, etc. Some surprise may be feltat Goldsmith being classed with Chatterton as a post-Reliquesman : but let us explain. In all considerable revolutions,political, literary, and other, the effect is two-fold. Some of LITERATURE. 353 1784] the brighter spirits are thrown into violent revolt, and others(fewer generally but not less bright) into stiff reaction. Gold-smith was here the reactionary. Not only had he no criticalhead—his criticism of literature is usually as weak as hiscriticism of life is consummate ; not o
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