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Edmund William Gosse ( September 21, 1849 - May 16, 1928) was an English poet, author and critic, the son of Philip Henry Gosse. He worked as assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1867, and in 1875 became a translator at the Board of Trade, a post which he held until 1904. In the meantime, he published his first volume of poetry, On Viol and Flute ( 1873) and a work of criticism, Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe ( 1879). He became acquainted with the pre-Raphaelites and Algernon Swinburne. From 1904, Gosse was librarian of the House of Lords, where he exercised considerable influence. He wrote for the Sunday Times, and was an expert on Thomas Gray, William CongreveThis article is about a writer. For the Congreve Rocket, see William Congreve (inventor). William Congreve ( January 24, 1670 January 19, 1729) was an English playwright and poet. Born in Bardsey, England (near Leeds), Congreve was educated in the law at, John DonneJohn Donne (pronounced Dun 1572 March 31, 1631) was a major English poet and writer, and probably the greatest of the metaphysical poets. His works include love poetry, sermons and religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, and sonnets, Jeremy TaylorJeremy Taylor is depicted in this portrait at Caius College, Cambridge University. Jeremy Taylor ( 1613 August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at, and Coventry PatmoreCoventry Kersey Dighton Patmore ( July 23, 1823 November 26, 1896) was an English poet and critic. The eldest son of Peter George Patmore, himself an author, Coventry was born at Woodford in Essex. He was privately educated, his father's intimate and cons. He can also take credit for introducing IbsenHenrik Johan Ibsen ( March 20, 1828 May 23, 1906) was an extremely influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama. His plays were considered scandalous in much of society at the time, when Victorian's work to the British public. His most famous book is the autobiographical Father and Son, about his troubled relationship with his father, Philip. In later life, he became a formative influence on Siegfried SassoonSiegfried Loraine Sassoon ( September 8, 1886 September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I, but later won acclaim for his prose work. Biography Early life and education Sasso, whose mother was a friend of Gosse's wife, Ellen.
1 Works
1.1 Published verse
- On Viol and Flute (1873)
- King Erik (1876)
- New Poems (1879)
- Firdausi in Exile (1885)
- In Russet and Silver (1894)
- Collected Poems (1896)
- Hypolympia, or the Gods on the Island (1901), an "ironic phantasy," the scene of which is laid in the 20th century, though the personages are Greek gods, is written in prose, with some blank verse.
1.2 Critical Works
- Seventeenth Century Studies (1883)
- Life of William Congreve (1888)
- The Jacobean Poets (1894)
- Life and Letters of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's (1899)
- Jeremy Taylor (1904, "English Men of Letters")
- Life of Sir Thomas Browne (1905)
- Life of Thomas Gray, whose works he edited (4 vols., 1884)
- A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889)
- History of Modern English Literature (1897)
- vols. iii. and iv. of an Illustrated Record of English Literature (1903-1904) undertaken in connection with Dr Richard Garnett.
- French Profiles (1905)
2 External links
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg PG was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. The texts provided are mostly in the pub e-texts:
Gosse, Edmund
Gosse, Edmund
