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mongsley: Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South

william12spirit: m Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse,[1] Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing t

war_poets: 25 March 1918 Siegfried Sassoon writes to Edmund Gosse ‘We are on the rugged hills looking towards Samaria. The hill-landscapes are magnificent. … Guns boom and echo among the hills; but it is a silent haunted, ancient sort of country.’

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Patbrdh: some a thousandfold, I should be tempted to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson, in a letter to Edmund Gosse

haemi_xoxo: Reading an NYT article about Edmund Gosse and damn if this part about life in the Victorian era doesn't ring true for life in Pakistan now

PulpLibrarian: In Russet And Silver, by Edmund Gosse (1894). Illustrations by Will Bradley.

ptrdim: Robert Louis Stevenson — The Letters Of Robert Louis Stevenson To His Family And Friends — to Edmund Gosse

Gzaxs: NEVER MIND WHOM YOU PRAISE, BUT BE VERY CAREFUL WHOM YOU BLAME. ~Edmund Gosse

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DrJohnNS: My New Year's wish shall be For love and love alone; More hands to hold out joy for me More hearts for me to own; For more than gold a thousandfold Is love that's neither bought nor sold. Edmund Gosse.

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carman_tessa: “If any one thing schooled me in the direction of poetry, it was perhaps the delightful idle liberty to prowl all alone about my grandfather’s cottage-grounds some thirty miles from London.” Christina Rossetti, letter to Edmund Gosse, March 26, 1884

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war_poets: 17 October 1915 Siegfried Sassoon meets Robbie Ross at a party at the home of Edmund Gosse.

queenofbithynia: edmund gosse more of a dick in his intro to shelley than shelley is himself remarkable someone go back in time & tell him that "margaret of the giant arms" is a complimentary epithet (supposing your name is margaret) & his derision has Failed

ncecire: Logan Pearsall Smith's memoir has a story in it about Edmund Gosse breaking into Walt Whitman's house

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer and poet Edmund Gosse (September 21, 1849), author of “More Books on the Table”(1923) and many other works.

NathanFrancis__: “The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiosity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.” Poems:

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Huddinge: 5 of 5 stars to Father and Son by Edmund Gosse

purplequote12: “Never mind whom you praise, but be careful whom you blame.” - Edmund Gosse

LucyLondon7: A propos rats there was an Official Rat Catcher Officer of the British Army - Philip Gosse, son of the Forgotten Poet of WW1 Sir Edmund Gosse

glasskeybooks: ‘As a collector of facts and marshaller of observations, he had not a rival in that age; his very absence of imagination aided him in this work.’ Edmund Gosse on his father Philip Henry Gosse - a botanist caught between Charles Darwin and the Plymouth Brethren

AnecdotalWisdom: British critic Sir Edmund Gosse was asked his opinion after he had been taken to see a private performance of a new play by Swinburne. “We were as nearly bored as enthusiasm would permit,” he replied.

MortenHoiJensen: From “Father and Son” (1907) by Edmund Gosse

infinita_fiori: behold, above the mountains there is light, a streak of gold, a line of gathering fire, behold, behold! the granite gates unclose, and down the vales a lyric people flows; dancing to music, with eye that flashes. what matchless beauty, what inspired ire! edmund william gosse

johnstonglenn: "I should very much regret you paying Mr. J. Joyce the compliment of an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes. You could only expose the worthlessness and impudence of his writings, and surely it would be a mistake to give him this prominence." - Edmund Gosse OTD in 1924

infinita_fiori: out of cold green depths of foam, sea-nymphs' home, to the live air, red with roses, came she, clothed about with light, warm and white, like a moon the mist encloses. edmund william gosse

timothycbaker: I'm reading Edmund Gosse's Father and Son for the first time, and it's shocking to me how carefully tailored it is to all of my interests right now.

AnneOatley: Telling your children the Easter Bunny exists could make them deceitful. Reminded of Edmund Gosse's Plymouth Brethren father, who forbade novels because they were made up

SimonGuy64: Random Book Cover No.59 Cover photograph of Edmund Gosse and his father, 1857. "So long as I was a mere part of them, without individual existence, and swept on, a satellite, in their atmosphere, I was mirthful when they were mirthful, and grave when they were grave."

agnesjuliet: Emily lived and worked in Stoke Newington, London, with her husband, the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, and their son Edmund. She was a spiritual writer and painter and illustrated her husband’s many books on the natural wonders of the British Isles. 2/15

timothy_stanley: On the eve of war, 1914, there was a socialist demonstration in Trafalgar Sq of 15,000. It rained. Edmund Gosse, the writer, observed: (From Mark Bostridge’s Fateful Year)

pchallinor: Fathers and sons: Robert Aickman and Edmund Gosse

TartarusPress: Robert Aickman was a great admirer of "Father and Son" by Edmund Gosse, and may well have had the book in mind when he wrote "The Attempted Rescue":

AodhBC: "I am fairly well, though no younger." Thomas Hardy writing to Edmund Gosse in 1926.

satisshroff21: ‘Turning again toward childish treble, Pipes and whistles in his sound’ From The Seven Ages of Man. * * * ‘In Denmark’ with Edmund Gosse, When he wrote about: ‘All the little memories of this last afternoon, How trifling they are, How indelible!’

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william_whyte: An 1886 review of Edmund Gosse's "From Shakespeare to Pope": 'a book so unworthy, in everything but externals, of a great University has never before been given to the world... it is the bounden duty of all friends of learning to join in discountenancing so evil a precedent'.

Jasmine_Elm: "I am ignorant: (the eye that sees roundabout it selfe, sees not into it selfe):" (Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton With an Essay on the Life and Writings of Thomas Nash by Edmund Gosse)

bwwc2022: Her writings were globally recognized within a few years of her death, as Edmund Gosse noted in his “Introductory Memoir” to her posthumously published collection, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan. (5/9)

levistahl: My god, Edmund Gosse never appears in any memoirs or diaries of the period but what he’s being slagged off as an empty, irritating operator. (But, oh, Father and Son is a masterpiece.)

jeffjarvis: In 1911, English poet Edmund Gosse lamented that Carnegie Libraries made "the superfluity of printed matter an absolute nightmare." He advocated "enormous destruction of printed books" else "librarians will go mad."

Page_Upon_Page: The Life And Letters Of Sir Edmund Gosse (Published: 1931) Full text:

AnecdotalWisdom: British critic Sir Edmund Gosse was asked his opinion after he had been taken to see a private performance of a new play by Swinburne. “We were as nearly bored as enthusiasm would permit,” he replied.

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Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer and poet Edmund Gosse (September 21, 1849), author of “More Books on the Table”(1923) and many other works.

PetloverHermine: 21Sept/1849: Edmund William Gosse is born in London, England. He’ll be a poet, author, and critic

rrb_writer: Edmund Gosse had strong feelings about bookplates: "I would as soon 'swop' pocket handkerchiefs with a man as bookplates."

LeahVeronese: and have developed a newfound appreciation for 1950s University letterhead stationary - courtesy of twentieth century correspondence about the manuscript bound in, from Edmund Gosse, Arthur Ashby and the absent presence of Evelyn Simpson in the last letter 5/7



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