Sir Edmund William Gosse C.B.[1] (21. septembar 1849 – 16. maj 1928) bio je engleski pjesnik, književnik i kritičar, odnosno sin Philipa Henryja Gossea i Emily Bowes.[2]

Edmund Gosse godine 1886., na slici Johna Singera Sargenta.

Odrastao je u strogo kršćanskoj porodici, da bi se u mladosti počeo baviti poezijom i likovnom kritikom. Najpoznatije mu je djelo Father and Son, knjiga memoara u kojima je opisao svoj odnos s ocem.

Opus uredi

Poezija uredi

  • Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets (1870), ko-autor John Arthur Blaikie
  • On Viol and Flute (1873)
  • King Erik (1876)
  • New Poems (1879)
  • Firdausi in Exile (1885)
  • In Russet and Silver (1894)
  • Collected Poems (1896)
  • Hypolympia, or the Gods on the Island (1901)

Kritike uredi

  • English Odes (1881)
  • Seventeenth Century Studies (1883)
  • Life of William Congreve (1888)
  • The Jacobean Poets (1894)
  • Life and Letters of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's (1899)
  • Jeremy Taylor (1904, "English Men of Letters")
  • Life of Sir Thomas Browne (1905)
  • Life of Thomas Gray (4 vols., 1884)
  • A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889)
  • History of Modern English Literature (1897)
  • Vols. iii. and iv. of an Illustrated Record of English Literature (1903-1904) zajedno s Dr. Richardom Garnettom.
  • French Profiles (1905)

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Popularna kultura uredi

Izvori uredi

  1. „The New Year Honours. Three Peerages., Rewards For Public Service., Two O.M.'S.”. London: The Times. , 1 January 1925; Issue 43848. str. 13; col G. 
  2. Sir Edmund Gosse

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