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See also:GOSSE, See also:EDMUND (1849– ) , See also:English poet and critic, was See also:born in See also:London on the Zest of See also:September 1849, son of the zoologist P. H. Gosse. In 1867 he became an assistant in the See also:department of printed books in the See also:British Museum, where he remained until he became in 1875 translator to the See also:Board of See also:Trade. In 1904 he was appointed librarian to the See also:House of Lords. In 1884–1890 he was See also:Clark Lecturer in English literature at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. Himself a writer of See also:literary See also:verse of much See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace, and See also:master of a See also:prose See also:style admirably expressive of a wide and appreciative culture, he was conspicuous for his valuable See also:work in bringing See also:foreign literature See also:home to English readers'. See also:Northern Studies (1879), a collection of essays on the literature of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and Scandinavia, was the outcome of a prolonged visit to those countries, and was followed by later work in the same direction. He translated See also:Ibsen's Hedda See also:Gabler (1891), and, with W. See also:Archer, The Master-Builder (1893), and in 1907 he. wrote a See also:life of Ibsen for the " Literary Lives " See also:series. He also edited the English See also:translation of the See also:works of See also:Bjornson.
His services to Scandinavian letters were acknowledged in 1901, when he was made a See also:knight of the See also:Norwegian See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of St See also:Olaf of the first class. Mr Gosse's published volumes of verse include On See also:Viol and See also:Flute (1873), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Erik (1876), New Poems (1879), Firdausi in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
Exile (1885), In Russet and See also:Silver (1894), Collected Poems (1896). Hypolympia, or the Gods on the See also:Island (1901), an " ironic phantasy," the See also:scene of which is laid in the loth See also:century, though the personages are See also:Greek gods, is written in prose, with some See also:blank verse. His Seventeenth Century Studies (1883), Life of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Congreve (1888), The Jacobean Poets (1894), Life and Letters of Dr See also:John See also:Donne, See also:Dean of St See also:Paul's (1899), See also:Jeremy See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor (1904, " English Men of Letters "), and Life of See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne (1905) See also:form a very considerable See also:body of See also:critical work on the English 17th-century writers. He also wrote a life of Thomas See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray, whose works he edited (4 vols., 1884); A See also:History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889); a History of See also:Modern English Literature (1897), and vols. iii. and iv. of an Illustrated See also:Record of English Literature (1903–1904) under-taken in connexion with Dr See also:Richard See also:Garnett. Mr Gosse was always a sympathetic student of the younger school of See also:French and Belgian writers, some of his papers on the subject being collected as French Profiles (1905). Critical See also:Kit-Kats (1896) contains an admirable See also:criticism of J. M. de See also:Heredia, reminiscences of See also:Lord de Tabley and others. He edited Heinemann's series of " Literature of the See also:World " and the same publisher's " Inter-See also:national Library." To the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica- he contributed numerous articles, and his services as See also:chief literary adviser in the preparation of the loth and rlth See also:editions incidentally testify to the high position held by him in the contemporary world of letters. In 1905 he was entertained in See also:Paris by the leading litterateurs as a representative of English literary culture. In 1907 Mr Gosse published anonymously See also:Father and Son, an intimate study of his own See also:early See also:family life. He married Ellen, daughter of Dr G. W. See also:Epps, and had a son and two daughters.
End of Article: GOSSE, EDMUND (1849– )
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