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Edmund Gosse
1849–1928
A major man of letters in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he helped introduce European writers such as Henrik Ibsen to English readers and became widely known for the memoir Father and Son. His work moves between poetry, criticism, biography, and personal reflection, with a lively interest in literature beyond England.
10 Audiobooks
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
by Edmund Gosse
Henrik Ibsen
by Edmund Gosse
Questions at Issue
by Edmund Gosse
Raleigh
by Edmund Gosse
Aspects and Impressions
by Edmund Gosse
Hypolympia; Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy
by Edmund Gosse
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
by Edmund Gosse
Gossip in a Library
by Edmund Gosse
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
by Edmund Gosse
The Future of English Poetry
by Edmund Gosse
About the author
Born in London on September 21, 1849, Edmund Gosse was an English poet, critic, translator, and literary historian. He was the son of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and grew up in a strict Plymouth Brethren household, an experience that shaped much of his later writing.
Gosse built an influential literary career through essays, criticism, and biographies, and he became known for helping English readers discover continental European writers, especially Henrik Ibsen. He also wrote poetry and held important literary and library posts, becoming a well-known figure in British literary life.
Today he is often remembered most vividly for Father and Son (1907), his memoir of childhood, faith, and breaking away from his family's religious world. The book has had a long afterlife because of its honesty and its sensitive picture of the tension between private belief and intellectual freedom.