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Sir Edmund William Gosse (* 21. September 1849 in London, England; † 16. Mai 1928 ebenda) war ein einflussreicher britischer Literaturhistoriker, Schriftsteller und Kritiker. Er wurde 1925 in den Ritterstand erhoben.
Edmund Gosse, by John Singer Sargent, 1886. Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (/ ɡ ɒ s /; 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.
Sir Edmund Gosse (born September 21, 1849, London, England—died May 16, 1928, London) was an English translator, literary historian, and critic who introduced the work of Henrik Ibsen and other continental European writers to English readers.
Introduction. Edmund William Gosse (b. 1849–d. 1928) was the preeminent man of letters during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Although he worked in several genres—as poet, playwright, biographer, essayist, critic, literary historian, and bibliophile—the modernist contempt for all things Victorian meant that Gosse’s wider ...
British literary critic, translator, and poet Edmund Gosse was the son of Philip Henry Gosse, a zoologist and preacher for the Plymouth Brethren. The poet was born in 1849, in the midst of Victorian England. His parents educated him thoroughly in the Bible, and his father hoped he would become a preacher. Gosse’s mother died early from cancer ...
7. Okt. 2020 · Chapter © 2022. Sir Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) was not only the librarian of the House of Lords but a literary critic and poet as well. In 1907, he published two biographies, Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments and Henrik Ibsen.
14. Nov. 2021 · Edmund Gosse’s account of his childhood is found in his masterpiece, Father and Son. In this book, Gosse attempts to come to terms with his upbringing at the hands of a man fanatically devoted to a sect of evangelical Calvinism, the Plymouth Brethren. I explore here what I take to be the central things we can learn about such a ...
