Who is Edmund Gosse

Sir Edmund William Gosse (; 21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhood in the book Father and Son has been described as the first psychological biography.

His friendship with the sculptor Hamo Thornycroft inspired a successful career as a historian of late-Victorian sculpture. His translations of Henrik Ibsen helped to promote that playwright in England, and he encouraged the careers of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce. He also lectured in English literature at Cambridge University.

Early life

Gosse was the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes. His father was a naturalist and his...
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Edmund Gosse Poems

• Revelation
  Into the silver night
  She brought with her pale hand
  The topaz lanthorn-light,
  And darted splendour o'er the land;...

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• Mongsley: andrew lang, edmund gosse, leslie stephen and w. e. henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for long john silver in treasure island. in 1890, he settled in samoa where, alarmed at increasing european and american influence in the south
• William12spirit: m andrew lang, edmund gosse,[1] leslie stephen and w. e. henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for long john silver in treasure island. in 1890, he settled in samoa where, alarmed at increasing european and american influence in the south sea islands, his writing t
• War_poets: 25 march 1918 siegfried sassoon writes to edmund gosse ‘we are on the rugged hills looking towards samaria. the hill-landscapes are magnificent. … guns boom and echo among the hills; but it is a silent haunted, ancient sort of country.’
• Howell69ddtw: the vnfortunate traveller or the life of jack wiltonwith an essay on the life and writings of thomas nash by edmund gosse nrhajkh
• Patbrdh: some a thousandfold, i should be tempted to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit. robert louis stevenson, in a letter to edmund gosse

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