Edmund Gosse

Sir Edmund Gosse was an influential English poet, critic, biographer, and translator who played a pivotal role in shaping literary and artistic discourse in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Born into the strict religious sect of the Plymouth Brethren, Gosse experienced a repressive upbringing under his father, the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse. His eventual rejection of that faith formed the basis for his most famous book, Father and Son (1907), a groundbreaking autobiographical work considered one of the first psychological memoirs in English literature.
Gosse began his literary career as an assistant librarian at the British Museum and went on to publish poetry, translations, and literary criticism. He developed close relationships w

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