Author:Edmund Gosse

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Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928)

See biography, quotes, indexes. C.B.; English poet, author and critic; President of the Royal Academy This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography. Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "E. G." This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "E. G."

[edit] Works

• Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets (1870), co-author John Arthur Blaikie
• On Viol and Flute (1873)
• King Erik (1876)
• New Poems (1879)
• Seventeenth Century Studies (1883)
• Life of Thomas Gray (4 vols., 1884)
• Firdausi in Exile (1885)
• Life of William Congreve (1888)
• A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889)
• The Jacobean Poets (1894)
• In Russet and Silver (1894)
• Collected Poems (1896)
• History of Modern English Literature (1897)
• Life and Letters of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's (1899)
• Hypolympia, or the Gods on the Island (1901)
• vols. iii. and iv. of an Illustrated Record of English Literature (1903-1904), in connection with Dr Richard Garnett.
• Jeremy Taylor (1904)
• French Profiles (1905)
• Life of Sir Thomas Browne (1905)
• Father and Son (1907) (autobiography)

[edit] Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

• Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699) (DNB00)
• Brathwaite, Richard (DNB00)
• Broome, William (DNB00)

[edit] Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

• “Aasen, Ivar,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Almqvist, Karl Jonas Ludwig,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Anacreontics,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Andersen, Hans Christian,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Assonance,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Baggesen, Jens Immanuel,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Ballade,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Barnfield, Richard,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Beaumont, Sir John,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Bucolics,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Busken-Huet, Conrad,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Cavendish, George,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Fryxell, Anders,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Garland, John,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Kyd, Thomas,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Lie, Jonas Lauritz Edemil,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Lyrical poetry,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Norton, Thomas,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Novel,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Sermon,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography (1911)
• “Virelay,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Vosmaer, Carel,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.

[edit] Translations

• The Bridal March; One Day (1896), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson[1]

[edit] Poems

• At the Play (1877)
• The Bath (1880)
• The Death of Procris (1886)
• George Odger (1877)
• The Mænad's Grave (1880)

[edit] Translated Poems

• Luna, by Stagnelius
• Memory, by Stagnelius
• Eternity, by Stagnelius

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1928, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.