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Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928We have 11 books for this author.
 Edmund William Gosse (September 21, 1849 – May 16, 1928) was an English poet, author and critic, the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes. CareerGosse 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). Gosse and Robert Louis Stevenson first met while teenagers, and after 1879 when Stevenson came to London on occasion he would stay with Gosse and his family. He became acquainted with the pre-Raphaelites and Algernon Swinburne. He became, in the 1880s, one of the most important art critics dealing with sculpture (writing mainly for the Saturday Review) with an interest spurred on by his intimate friendship with the sculptor Hamo Thornycroft. Gosse would eventually write the first history of the renaissance of late-Victorian sculpture in 1894 in a four-part series for the Art Journal, dubbing the movement the New Sculpture. 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 Congreve, John Donne, Jeremy Taylor, and Coventry Patmore. He can also take credit for introducing Ibsen's work to the British public. His most famous book is the autobiographical Father and Son, about his troubled relationship with his Plymouth Brethren father, Philip, which was dramatised for television by Dennis Potter. Historians caution, though, that notwithstanding its literary excellence, Gosse's narrative is often at odds with the verifiable facts of his own and his parents' lives[citation needed]. In later life, he became a formative influence on Siegfried Sassoon, whose mother was a friend of Gosse's wife, Ellen, and whose uncle, Hamo Thornycroft, was Gosse's lifelong friend. Gosse was also closely tied to figures such as Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, and André Gide. WorksPublished verse
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Popular cultureHis book 'Father and Son' partially inspired Oscar and Lucinda, a novel by Peter Carey, that won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. External links
This biographical information was gathered from the Edmund_Gosse page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksThe Bridal March; One DayCaptain Mansana and Mother's Hands Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Gossip in a Library Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder Some Diversions of a Man of Letters A Study of Shakespeare Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse |
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