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Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, quotes. C.B.; English poet, author and critic; President of the Royal Academy This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901. Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "E. G." or by "E. W. G." This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "E. G."

Edmund William Gosse

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)

Poems

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

• "Two Poems by Edmund Gosse: 'Alere Flammam', 'A Dream of November'." The Yellow Book, Volume 1.

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

• Akenside, Mark
• Banks, John (fl.1696)
• Barnfield, Richard
• Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
• Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
• Behn, Afra
• Belchier, Daubridgcourt
• Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
• Brathwaite, Richard
• Broome, William
• Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)
• Gosse, Emily
• Gosse, Philip Henry
• Pater, Walter Horatio
• Pix, Mary

• Browning, Robert (DNB01)

Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

• “Aasen, Ivar” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Almqvist, Karl Jonas Ludwig” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Anacreontics” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Andersen, Hans Christian” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Asbjörnsen, Peter Christen” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Assonance” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Baggesen, Jens Immanuel” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Ballade” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Barnfield, Richard” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Beaumont, Sir John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Belgium” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (Literature)
• “Biography” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Blank Verse” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Bucolics” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Busken-Huet, Conrad” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Cavendish, George” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Chansons de Geste” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Choriambic Verse” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Clanvowe, Sir Thomas” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Conscience, Hendrik” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Constable, Henry” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Criticism” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Denmark” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (Literature)
• “Descriptive Poetry” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Dialogue” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Diary” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Didactic Poetry” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Dithyrambic Poetry” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Donne, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Drachmann, Holger Henrik Herboldt” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Drayton, Michael” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Dutch Literature” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Edda” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Epilogue” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Essay” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Finland” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (Literature)
• “Flemish Literature” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Forssell, Hans Ludvig” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Fryxell, Anders” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Garland, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Ibsen, Henrik” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Kyd, Thomas” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Lie, Jonas Lauritz Edemil” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Loti, Pierre” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Lyrical poetry” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Norton, Thomas” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Norway” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (Literature)
• “Novel” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Ode” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Öhlenschläger, Adam Gottlob” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Pastoral” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Prologue” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Prose” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Sermon” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography (1911) (typesetting as in original article)
• “Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (typesetting to fill computer screen)
• “Style (literature)” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Sweden” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (Literature and Philosophy)
• “Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Troubadour” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Usk, Thomas” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Virelay” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Vosmaer, Carel” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Wordsworth, Dorothy” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Translations

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

Translated Poems

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

About

• “Gosse, Edmund William,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Gosse, Edmund” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Gosse, Edmund William” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Gosse, Edmund,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.
• “Gosse, Edmund,” Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), 1922.

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.