Bücher von Edmund Gosse

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Gossip In A Library is a collection of essays written by Edmund Gosse, a British writer and critic. The book was first published in 1891 and has since become a classic in the field of literary criticism. The essays in this book are all centered around the theme of books and libraries, and Gosse's musings on various literary topics. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains essays on famous authors such as John Milton, Samuel Johnson, and William Wordsworth. Gosse provides insightful commentary on their works, their lives, and their influence on literature. The second part of the book focuses on libraries and book collecting. Gosse shares his own experiences as a book collector and discusses the importance of libraries in preserving knowledge and culture.Throughout the book, Gosse's writing is characterized by his wit, erudition, and love of books. He is a master of the art of literary criticism, and his essays are both informative and entertaining. Gossip In A Library is a must-read for anyone interested in literature, libraries, and the history of books.In this slow fashion, with long Rip Van Winkle slumbers and occasional faint awakenings, the French Academy faltered on with fitful persistence towards the completion of its famous Dictionary. But, as I have said, it was a period of great enthusiasm about all such summaries of knowledge, and Paris was thirsting for grammars, lexicons, inventories of language and the like. The Academy insisted that the world must wait for the approach of their vast and lumbering machine; but meanwhile public curiosity was impatient, and all sorts of brief and imperfect dictionaries were issued to satisfy it.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

CONTENTSChildhood and Early College LifeThe Grand TourStoke-Pogis. - Death of West. - First English PoemsLife at CambridgeThe "Elegy." - Six Poems. - Death of Gray's Aunt and MotherThe Pindaric OdesBritish Museum. - Norton NicholsLife at Cambridge. - English TravelsBonstetten. - DeathPosthumous

Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), best known for his memoir Father and Son, was one of the foremost literary critics of his day, even though he had not received a university education. Invited to give the prestigious Clark Lectures at Cambridge, he developed the materials for this book, first published in 1885. Gosse sets out his theory of classical poetry, analysing its rise in the seventeenth century in opposition to freer, more romantic blank-verse forms. The book became the subject of a famously excoriating forty-page review by Oxford-educated critic John Churton Collins. While Collins' estimation of the inaccuracies in Gosse's work was largely correct, the review went far beyond constructive appraisal and caused a literary scandal, though Gosse's reputation was not permanently damaged. This book and the controversy it caused form part of the story of English literature as it established itself as a professional academic discipline.

Thomas Gray (1716-71) was one of the most influential poets of the eighteenth century, and is probably best remembered today for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. In this biography of Gray, first published in the first 'English Men of Letters' series in 1882, poet and critic Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) delivers a sympathetic account of his subject, offering both a traditional chronological narrative of Gray's life, from his schooldays at Eton, through his travels abroad and his academic career at Cambridge (though he was appointed professor of modern history in 1768, failing health meant that he never delivered any lectures), and an analysis of his poetry. In the book's last chapter, Gosse laments the lack of recognition that Gray had received in England since his death: Dr Johnson is criticised especially for his writings on Gray - 'barren and meagre of fact to the last degree'.

Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909) was an often controversial English poet, playwright, novelist and literary critic. He and fellow writer Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) became close friends, and Gosse eventually undertook this brief biography of the poet, which was published in 1912.

First published in 1897 (though the version reissued here was published in 1898 in the series Short Histories of the Literatures of the World), this book documents English literature from Chaucer to Tennyson. Rather than focusing on the biographical and historical aspects, Gosse concentrates instead on literary technique and form.

Published in 1889, Gosse's study of English literature from 1660 to 1780 was commissioned by Macmillan as the third volume in a series of literary histories. It was a landmark in a relatively new field of academic study, popular and accessible, providing an enthusiastic and wide-ranging introduction to the period.