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EDMUND GOSSE (1849– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 268 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDMUND See also:GOSSE (1849– )  , See also:English poet and critic, was See also:born in See also:London on the Zest of See also:September 1849, son of the zoologist P . H . See also:Gosse . In 1867 he became an assistant in the See also:department of printed books in the See also:British Museum, where he remained until he became in 1875 translator to the See also:Board of See also:Trade . In 1904 he was appointed librarian to the See also:House of Lords . In 1884–1890 he was See also:Clark Lecturer in English literature at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . Himself a writer of See also:literary See also:verse of much See also:grace, and See also:master of a See also:prose See also:style admirably expressive of a wide and appreciative culture, he was conspicuous for his valuable See also:work in bringing See also:foreign literature See also:home to English readers' . See also:Northern Studies (1879), a collection of essays on the literature of See also:Holland and Scandinavia, was the outcome of a prolonged visit to those countries, and was followed by later work in the same direction . He translated See also:Ibsen's Hedda See also:Gabler (1891), and, with W . See also:Archer, The Master-Builder (1893), and in 1907 he. wrote a See also:life of Ibsen for the " Literary Lives " See also:series . He also edited the English See also:translation of the See also:works of See also:Bjornson . His services to Scandinavian letters were acknowledged in 1901, when he was made a See also:knight of the See also:Norwegian See also:order of St See also:Olaf of the first class .

Mr Gosse's published volumes of verse include On See also:

Viol and See also:Flute (1873), See also:King Erik (1876), New Poems (1879), Firdausi in See also:Exile (1885), In Russet and See also:Silver (1894), Collected Poems (1896) . Hypolympia, or the Gods on the See also:Island (1901), an " ironic phantasy," the See also:scene of which is laid in the loth See also:century, though the personages are See also:Greek gods, is written in prose, with some See also:blank verse . His Seventeenth Century Studies (1883), Life of See also:William See also:Congreve (1888), The Jacobean Poets (1894), Life and Letters of Dr See also:John See also:Donne, See also:Dean of St See also:Paul's (1899), See also:Jeremy See also:Taylor (1904, " English Men of Letters "), and Life of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Browne (1905) See also:form a very considerable See also:body of See also:critical work on the English 17th-century writers . He also wrote a life of Thomas See also:Gray, whose works he edited (4 vols., 1884); A See also:History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889); a History of See also:Modern English Literature (1897), and vols. iii. and iv. of an Illustrated See also:Record of English Literature (1903–1904) under-taken in connexion with Dr See also:Richard See also:Garnett . Mr Gosse was always a sympathetic student of the younger school of See also:French and Belgian writers, some of his papers on the subject being collected as French Profiles (1905) . Critical See also:Kit-Kats (1896) contains an admirable See also:criticism of J . M. de See also:Heredia, reminiscences of See also:Lord de Tabley and others . He edited Heinemann's series of " Literature of the See also:World " and the same publisher's " Inter-See also:national Library." To the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica- he contributed numerous articles, and his services as See also:chief literary adviser in the preparation of the loth and rlth See also:editions incidentally testify to the high position held by him in the contemporary world of letters . In 1905 he was entertained in See also:Paris by the leading litterateurs as a representative of English literary culture . In 1907 Mr Gosse published anonymously See also:Father and Son, an intimate study of his own See also:early See also:family life . He married Ellen, daughter of Dr G . W .

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Epps, and had a son and two daughters .

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