5. What were his principal traits?

6. What was his opinion of his friend Johnson? II, 110, 122.

STYLE AND WORKS

1. Give Johnson's estimate of the "Good-Natured Man." II, 103.

2. Was Goldsmith a productive poet? See Goethe's statement to Eckermann. IV, 393.

3. Name the principal prose writers of his time. II, 100, 331; V, 193, 406; VII, 334; XI, 294.

4. What other poet wrote at this period? VI, 106.

5. The style of Goldsmith is in imitation of what poet? X, 64.

6. What defects mar his writings?