Q: Dr Johnson left out one important poet in his Lives of the Poets. Who was he?
a) Oliver Goldsmith
b) Richard Sheridan
c) Thomas Carew
d) Jonathan Swift
Correct answer: a) Oliver Goldsmith
Dr Johnson
Dr Johnson was one of the greatest writers of the eighteenth century. His last great work is "The Lives of the Poets". He choose 52 writers, who mostly belonged to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Goldsmith belonged to The Lives of the poets but in the end, Dr Johnson left out Goldsmith in his lives of the poets. Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish Novelist, Dramatist and poet. He was born on 10th November 1728 in Ireland. He was popularly known for his novel "The Vicar of Wakefield". He wrote, translated or compiled more than 40 volumes. The works for which he is remembered are marked by good sense, moderation, balance, order and intellectual history. He died from a kidney infection on 4th April 1774 in London.
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