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fame was the goal of so many writers. The result, he
feared, might be that nothing would be remembered of
the literary works of his time.
We have observed that Goldsmith, in his endeavor
to come to grips with the dilemma of the writer,
represented a variety of sometimes conflicting views. We
have seen, however, that it was likely to be Goldsmith in
his optimistic rather than in his pessimistic vein who set
the tone for what was to come. So, too, his view of the
“ideal” critic, of his function as one of mediation between
the audience and the writer, was to prevail. Critics,
writers, and philosophers—Johnson, Burke, Hume,
Reynolds, Kames, and the Whartons—all adopted
Goldsmith’s premise as they began to analyze the
experience of the reader.