Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. In The History of the Man in Black he describes the cynical journey of a generous and benevolent young man from dire pecuniary circumstances to riches, achieved by divesting himself of any moral considerations for others.
Af Lord Byron, A.E. Housman, Walter Raleigh, A. C. Swinburne, Benjamin Franklin King, A. H. Clough, Thomas Hardy, W.S. Gilbert, Edward Lear, J.K. Stephen, William McGonagall, Lewis Carroll