Goldsmith and Crabbe

             Oliver Goldsmith grew up homely and idle and he studied medicine.  He was successful and in the intimate society of Samuel Johnson.  His audiences were probably educated people in his circle and people in poverty. 

            George Crabbe was studying to be a surgeon and was a minister in the Anglican church.  He answered the claims in Oliver Goldsmith’s idealization of villagers.  Crabbe had the admiration of William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron.  His audiences were people of poverty.  He grew up poor and wrote about poverty.