Oliver Goldsmith Dates10 November 1730 - 4 April 1774 PresentationGoldsmith was described by contemporaries as prone to envy, a congenial but impetuous and disorganised personality. The combination of his literary work and his dissolute lifestyle led Horace Walpole to give him the epithet inspired idiot.Source of the presentationSource: en.wikipedia.org(External link) E-mailTwitterFacebook