The complete online text of Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse.

Edmund Gosse began his long literary career hoping to make his mark as a poet; but, although a small collection of poems, On Viol and Flute (1873), won the approval of some distinguished critics, it was as the first English translator of the plays and po...

Edmund William Gosse was one of the key literary and intellectual figures of English life from the latter part of the nineteenth century until his death in 1928. It appears that Gosse knew everybody in the literary world and developed warm, intellectuall...

Edmund Gosse's present reputation, at least outside the scholarly community, rests on his autobiography, Father and Son (1907). This was not always so. In 1931, three years after Gosse's death, T. S. Eliot reviewed Evan Charteris's The Life and Letters o...

HENRIK IBSEN. By Robert Ferguson. Richard Cohen Books; 408 pages; [Pounds] 25 IBSEN is one of the greatest academic industries of the world, as Robert Ferguson acknowledges in the preface to his study. In justifying adding yet another tome to the pile,...

Henrik Ibsen's plays often associated the male family name with patriarchical authority. Bernick in 'Pillars of Society' is trapped by his past lies, Nora in 'A Doll's House' has to steal her husband's name, and Helene Alving in 'Ghosts' cannot escape the presence evoked...

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