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Edmund Gosse

Born

in London, England, The United Kingdom

September 21, 1849

Died

May 16, 1928

Genre

Criticism, Poetry, Biography

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Sir Edmund Gosse was an influential English poet, critic, biographer, and translator who played a pivotal role in shaping literary and artistic discourse in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Born into the strict religious sect of the Plymouth Brethren, Gosse experienced a repressive upbringing under his father, the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse. His eventual rejection of that faith formed the basis for his most famous book, Father and Son (1907), a groundbreaking autobiographical work considered one of the first psychological memoirs in English literature.
Gosse began his literary career as an assistant librarian at the British Museum and went on to publish poetry, translations, and literary criticism. He developed close relationships w ...more

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	Father and Son by Edmund Gosse, Michael Newton (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 1,112 ratings — published 1907 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henrik Ibsen 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1907 — 127 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life Of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1917) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1917 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gossip in a Library 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1891 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Allies' Fairy Book by Edmund Gosse, Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1916 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tennyson - A Short Biography 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raleigh 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	فردوسی در تبعید - نفرین by Edmund Gosse, منوچهر امیری (ترجمه) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1982 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.”
― Edmund Gosse

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“Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.”
― Edmund Gosse, Father and Son

tags: anti-darwinism, darwinism, faith, fundamentalism, plymouth-brethren, religion, science, science-and-religion

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“I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what were all such toys to me?”
― Edmund Gosse, Father and Son

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