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    Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (/ɡɒs/; 21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant...
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    Gosse was portrayed as an overbearing father of uncompromising religious views in Father and Son (1907), a memoir written by his son, Edmund Gosse, a...
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    Edmund Gosse, initially published anonymously. Gosse had already published a biography of his father in 1890. Father and Son describes Edmund Gosse's...
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    literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided...
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    execution in 1618, prevented the accomplishment of his plan. According to Edmund Gosse, "This huge composition is one of the principal glories of seventeenth-century...
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    (1872), the form became popularised in England through Edmund Gosse and Austin Dobson. Gosse, Dobson, Oscar Wilde, Andrew Lang, and John Payne were among...
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    (Yves Kermadec, inspired by Loti companion Pierre le Cor), described by Edmund Gosse as "one of his most characteristic productions". Second, while serving...
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    English-speaking audience, largely thanks to the efforts of William Archer and Edmund Gosse. These in turn had a profound influence on the young James Joyce who...
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    Radio 4 Extra - Noel Coward - Blithe Spirit". BBC. "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Edmund Gosse - Father and Son, Episode 1". BBC. "BBC Radio 4 – War and Peace, Episode...
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    1905, titled "The Golden Threshold". The publication was suggested by Edmund Gosse, and bore an introduction by Arthur Symons. It also included a sketch...
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  • surgeon, son of William Clarence Gosse (1912–1996), Canadian physician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), English poet, author...
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  • crabbed lays to ease his heart. First two stanzas of the sestina "Sestina" Edmund Gosse (1879) A sestina (Italian: sestina, from sesto, sixth; Old Occitan: cledisat...
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  • biographies. AA Milne: His Life was the Whitbread Biography of the Year, 1990. Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape (Duff Cooper Prize, 1985) was described by John...
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  • autobiography of the English poet Edmund Gosse, which describes his relationship with his father, Philip Henry Gosse. A film version released in 1997 was...
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    Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, "Baron Corvo", Ernest Dowson, George Gissing, Sir Edmund Gosse, Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, Charlotte Mew, Arthur Symons, H....
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    English translation was by the theatre critic William Archer and poet Edmund Gosse. Productions in Oslo and Copenhagen were coordinated to open on 8 March...
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    King's School, Canterbury, p. 126. Edmund Gosse, 'Walter Pater: A Portrait' (September 1894), reprinted in Gosse's Selected Essays: First Series (London...
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    attracted little attention, though it eventually came to the notice of Edmund Gosse in 1877, who reviewed it favourably in the Examiner that year. Sheaf...
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    Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, the volume includes an introduction by Edmund Gosse. The children's book contains a selection of thirteen tales from 11 allied...
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    Edmund (1652-1700), of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690–1715. Boydell & Brewer. Gosse, Edmund William...
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    Windus, 1905. The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. Sir Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise, 20 vols. Bonchurch Edition; London and New York:...
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    age he befriended the young Edmund Gosse, whom he introduced to Shakespeare. Knowles makes a happy appearance in Gosse's Father and Son. He died at Torquay...
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    "prototype" and "archetype" in English. The 19th- and 20th-century critic Edmund Gosse complained of the book that "gathering his forces it is Quincunx, Quincunx...
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    New York: Authors Choice Press, ISBN 978-0-595-26925-9, pp. 273–274 Edmund Gosse, Short histories of the literatures of the world, p. 181, at Google Books...
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    Behn were recounted by a long line of biographers, among them Dyce, Edmund Gosse, Ernest Bernbaum, Montague Summers, Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf...
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  • Cesário Verde. British poets such as Andrew Lang, Austin Dobson and Edmund Gosse were sometimes known as "English Parnassians" for their experiments in...
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    Stevenson was friends with other homosexual men, including Horatio Brown, Edmund Gosse, and John Addington Symonds, and the duality of their socially-suppressed...
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  • efforts than through the impact of an influential article written by Edmund Gosse and printed in 1877 in the Cornhill Magazine reintroducing the triolet...
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    was introduced by the astronomer Kepler in 1604. The Victorian critic Edmund Gosse complained that "gathering his forces it is Quincunx, Quincunx, all the...
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    he became friends with Robert Louis Stevenson, John Singer Sargent, Edmund Gosse, George du Maurier, Paul Bourget, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. His...
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