At 06:58 PM 3/19/98 -0500, you wrote: >this is most certainly off the topic, but i'm in desparate need of an >expert on Marianne Moore. i'm writing an essay on her poem "the student" >and am curious about the following line's origin: > >"Jack Bookworm led a college life, says Goldsmith." > >now who's Goldsmith? She gives us an apparent source in the footnotes >(Goldsmith's The Double Transformation) but i can't seem to find that >publication anywhere. any suggestions? > >kf. sounds like Oliver to me...him of She Stoops to Conquer & the Vicar of Wakefield fame? jim