The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Gosse, Edmund William

GOSSE, gŏs, Edmund William, English literary critic and poet: b. London, 21 Sept. 1849. From 1875-1904 he was translator to the Board of Trade, and since 1904 has been

librarian to the House of Lords. In 1884-85 he lectured in the United States. He has made a special study of Scandinavian literature, and published &lsquo;Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe&rsquo; (1879). Other works of his are &lsquo;Life of Gray&rsquo; (1882); &lsquo;Seventeenth Century Studies&rsquo; (1883); &lsquo;From Shakespeare to Pope&rsquo; (1885); &lsquo;Life of Congreve&rsquo; (1888); &lsquo;History of Eighteenth Century Literature&rsquo; (1890); &lsquo;Life of Philip Henry Gosse, Naturalist&rsquo; (1890); &lsquo;Gossip in a Library&rsquo; (1891); &lsquo;Questions at Issue&rsquo; (1893); &lsquo;The Jacobean Poets&rsquo; (1894); &lsquo;History of Modern English Literature&rsquo; (1897); &lsquo;Coventry Patmore&rsquo; (1904); &lsquo;Father and Son&rsquo; (1907), a delightful piece of autobiography which was crowned by the French Academy in 1913; &lsquo;Portraits and Studies&rsquo; (1912); &lsquo;Collected Essays&rsquo; (5 vols., 1913). He published his &lsquo;Collected Poems&rsquo; in 1896.