PREFACE
At the present hour, when fiction takes forms
so ingenious and so specious, it is perhaps necessary
to say that the following narrative, in all its parts,
and so far as the punctilious attenti...
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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. ...
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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 w...
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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 i...
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Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
Edmund (William) Gosse