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Edmund Gosse
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Edmund Gosse : Life of Gray
'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I would gladly subscribe to nearly all your criticism, if I had not a feeling that in some points wh. you touch, I am too much of an outsider for any subscription to have much value. The only criticism wh. I might cavil a bit would concern the Bard. I never could feel that the old gentleman ought to derive so much satisfaction from the advent of the Tudor destiny; & Gray?s desire to administer that bit of consolation seems to me to miss the point & rather spoil his design. Still I am fond of the Bard as one is fond of what one has already known by heart.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S.
H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" by Philip Gosse of his grandfather, Edmund Gosse's Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S. (1890) with letters, drawings, photographs etc.
UnknownCentury: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse
Edmund Gosse : biographies
Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had criticized but read with lively interest."
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Life of Congreve
Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, just out, and I have read it ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Preface to Vol 1 of Ibsen, Works
Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really ... more interesting than Ibsen himself ... I think you make him out a richer phenomenon than he is. The perusal of the dreary Rosmersholm and even the reperusal of Ghosts has been rather a shock to me -- they have let me down, down."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : "paper on Pater"
Henry James, in letter of 13 December 1894 to Edmund Gosse, returns, and discusses reading (with enthusiasm) Gosse's article on Pater.
UnknownCentury: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James
Edmund Gosse : life of Swinburne
Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinburne [biographical essay by Gosse, originally intended for the DNB] [...] the perusal of which lubricated yesterday two or three rough hours.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Portraits and Sketches
Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for your so-vividly interesting volume of literary "Portraits" [...] I read your book, with lively "reactions," within the first week of its arrival [goes on to praise it in detail]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Books on the Table
Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet with Edmund Gosse. How often have I said that I would never read anyone before beginning to write? The book came at breakfast, & I fell. He is one of the respectables [...] But how low in tone it all is -- purred out by the firesides of Dowagers. That is not quite true, seeing that he has some sturdiness, some independence, & some love of letters. The peculiar combination of suavity, gravity, malignity, & common sense always repels me.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : New Poems
'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary verse .. Hence you will be kind enough to take this from me in a kindly spirit ... "To my daughter" is delicious.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : 'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill Magazine
'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
Edmund Gosse : English Odes
'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Two visits to Denmark
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : [literary criticism]
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : [poetry]
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : [poetry]
'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the public services, & the conflict of personalities as shown in 'Father & Son' & his great interest in the Scandinavian peoples. Miss Marriage gave some very interesting readings from '2 Visits to Denmark' 'The Episode of the Plum Pudding served in a Tureen' & the dear lady who remarked "It brings the dear English nation so near to one". Ed. Gosse has also done great work as a critic - one sentence which fell from H.M.W.in relation to Swinburne. "A drunken monkey who gave utterance to the songs of angels". C.I. Evans spoke upon the Poems. These belong to the period round about 1872 & are frankly of that period & makeup. Perhaps versifying would be the best term to use as they do not quite rank as poetry.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Father and Son:A Study of Two Temperaments
'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the last was in '12 or early '13 when the copy disappeared [...] Directly the little friendly looking vol. was put into my hands yesterday afternoon I read [...] the intro. and the first 15 pages where there are passages for which I have a special affection [...].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Edmund Gosse : Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France
'Many thanks for the book. I read the sketch of De la R[ochefoucauld] psychology with great delight.'
