Author:Edmund William Gosse

Edmund William Gosse
(1849–1928)

Edmund William Gosse

Works

• Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets (1870), co-author John Arthur Blaikie
• On Viol and Flute (1873)
• King Erik (1876)
• New Poems (1879)
• Seventeenth Century Studies (1883)
• Life of Thomas Gray (4 vols., 1884)
• Firdausi in Exile (1885)
• Life of William Congreve (1888)
• A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889)
• Northern studies (1890) (external scan)
• Questions at Issue (1893) (external scan)
• The Jacobean Poets (1894)
• In Russet and Silver (1894)
• Collected Poems (1896)
• History of Modern English Literature (1897)
• Life and Letters of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's (1899)
• Hypolympia, or the Gods on the Island (1901)
• English Literature: an Illustrated Record in 4 vols. (1903) with Richard Garnett.
  • Volume I. From The Beginnings To The Age Of Henry VII (external scan)
  • Volume II. From the age of Henry VIII to the age of Milton, by R. Garnett and Edmund Gosse
  • Volume III. From Milton to Johnson, by E. Gosse (transcription project)
  • Volume IV. From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson, by E. Gosse.
• Jeremy Taylor (1904)
• French Profiles (1905) (external scan)
• Life of Sir Thomas Browne (1905) also known as Sir Thomas Browne (external scan)
• Henrik Ibsen (1907)
• Father and Son (1907) (autobiography) (external scan)
• The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1917) (external scan)
• "Mitford, Algernon Bertram Freeman-," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)

As editor

• Posthumous Poems (1917), by Algernon Charles Swinburne, co-edited with Thomas James Wise

Poems

• "At the Play" in Littell's Living Age, 132 (1710) (1877)
• "The Bath" in Littell's Living Age, 144 (1855) (1880)
• "The Death of Procris" in Littell's Living Age, 170 (2201) (1886)
• "Greece and England" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1722) (1877)
• "George Odger" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1712) (1877)
• "The Mænad's Grave" in Littell's Living Age, 144 (1855) (1880)
• "To a Child" in Littell's Living Age, 138 (1779) (1878)
• "Alere Flammam" in The Yellow Book, 1 (1894), pp. 153–154
• "A Dream of November" in The Yellow Book, 1 (1894), p. 155
• "The Ring of Life" in The Yellow Book, 5 (1895), p. 117
• "R. L. S.: An Early Portrait" (from "The Island of the Blest"). Robert Louis Stevenson; a Bookman extra number. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1913.

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

1885-1900

• Akenside, Mark
• Banks, John (fl.1696)
• Barnfield, Richard
• Beaumont, Joseph (1616-1699)
• Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
• Behn, Afra
• Belchier, Daubridgcourt
• Blair, Robert (1699-1746)
• Brathwaite, Richard
• Broome, William
• Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)
• Gosse, Emily
• Gosse, Philip Henry
• Pater, Walter Horatio
• Pix, Mary

1st supplement

• Browning, Robert

2nd supplement

• Brightwen, Eliza
• Otté, Elise
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition

• "Almqvist, Karl Jonas Ludwig," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 1) (1878)
• "Baggesen, Jens Emmanuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 3) (1878)
• "Denmark," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 7) (1878)
• "Edda," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 7) (1878)
• "Norway," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 17) (1884) (Literature)
• "Sweden," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 22) (1887) (Literature)
• "Tegnér, Esaias," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)

Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

• "Aasen, Ivar," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Almqvist, Karl Jonas Ludwig," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Anacreontics," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Andersen, Hans Christian," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Asbjörnsen, Peter Christen," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Assonance," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Baggesen, Jens Immanuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ballade," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Barnfield, Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Beaumont, Sir John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Belgium," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Literature)
• "Biography," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Björnson, Björnstjerne," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Blank Verse," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Bouts-Rimés," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Bucolics," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Busken-Huet, Conrad," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Canzone," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Carew, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Cavendish, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Chansons de Geste," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Chant Royal," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Choriambic Verse," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Clanvowe, Sir Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Collins, William (poet)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Conscience, Hendrik," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Constable, Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Conte," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Couplet," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Cowley, Abraham," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Crashaw, Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Criticism," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Daniel, Samuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Davenant, Sir William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Dekker, Edward Douwes," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Denmark," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Literature)
• "Descriptive Poetry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Dialogue," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Diary," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Didactic Poetry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Dithyrambic Poetry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Donne, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Drachmann, Holger Henrik Herboldt," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Drayton, Michael," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Dutch Literature," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Edda," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Elegy," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Epic Poetry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Epilogue," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Epistle," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Poetry)
• "Essay, Essayist," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Etheredge, Sir George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Euphuism," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ewald, Johannes," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Fabliau," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Fabre, Ferdinand," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Feuillet, Octave," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Flaubert, Gustave," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "FitzGerald, Edward," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Finland," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Literature)
• "Flemish Literature," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Forssell, Hans Ludvig," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Fryxell, Anders," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Garland, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Gnome and Gnomic Poetry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Heroic Romances," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Heroic Verse," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Herrick, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Holberg, Ludvig Holberg, Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Huygens, Sir Constantijn," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ibsen, Henrik," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Idyl," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Jacobsen, Jens Peter," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Kalewala," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Kyd, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lampoon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lie, Jonas Lauritz Edemil," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Loti, Pierre," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lyrical Poetry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Macaronics," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Madrigal#In Verse," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (In Verse)
• "Maeterlinck, Maurice," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Norton, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Norway," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Literature)
• "Novel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ode," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Öhlenschläger, Adam Gottlob," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ottava Rima," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Overbury, Sir Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Paludan-Müller, Frederik," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Pastoral," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Pindarics," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Prologue," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Prose," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Rhyme," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Rhythm," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in verse)
• "Rimbaud, Jean Arthur," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Rivers, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Rossetti, Christina Georgina," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Runes, Runic Language and Inscriptions," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Rydberg, Abraham Viktor," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Saga," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Samain, Albert Victor," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sermon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Song," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Literary)
• "Stanley, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (typesetting to fill computer screen)
• "Style (literary)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sully-Prudhomme, Rene François Armand Prudhomme," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sweden," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Literature and Philosophy)
• "Swinburne, Algernon Charles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Tegnér, Esaias," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Terza Rima," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Topelius, Zakris," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Triolet," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Troubadour," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Trouvère," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Usk, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Vers de Société," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Verse," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Villanelle," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Virelay," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Vosmaer, Carel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Waller, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Walloons," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (Literature)
• "Watson, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Wells, Charles Jeremiah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Wennerberg, Gunnar," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Winther, Christian," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Wordsworth, Dorothy," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Other Works

• "Living English Sculptors". The Century Magazine. Vol. XXVI no. 2. pp. 163–185. (June 1883)
• "The Unity of France" in The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 223, No. 455 (January, 1916) pp. 1-20 (external scan)
• Life of Guy de Maupassant, in Pierre and Jean by Clara Bell (1902).
• Eliza Brightwen - The Life and Thoughts of a Naturalist (autobiographical writings, journal, etc. introduced by Gosse, edited by W. Chesson, 1909)
• Eliza Brightwen - Eliza Brightwen, naturalist & philanthropist; an autobiography. Edited by W. H. Chesson, with introduction and epilogue by Gosse. New York: American Tract Society. (1909)

Translations

• The Bridal March; One Day (1896), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson[1]

Translated Poems

• "Luna" in Littell's Living Age, 170 (2200), by Stagnelius
• "Memory" in Littell's Living Age, 170 (2200), by Stagnelius
• "Eternity" in Littell's Living Age, 170 (2200), by Stagnelius

Works about Gosse

• "Sat est Scripsisse" in The Yellow Book, 2 (1894), pp. 142–144
• "Gosse, Edmund William," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Gosse, Edmund, LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Gosse, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Gosse, Edmund William," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Gosse, Edmund William," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Gosse, Edmund," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Gosse, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)