A pioneering naturalist and marine biologist, Philip Henry Gosse's strictly religious worldview is brought into crisis by the discoveries of Charles Darwin and the death of his wife - and Edmund’s mother - Emily.
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), best known for his memoir Father and Son, was one of the foremost literary critics of his day. This set of lectures given at Cambridge on the rise and fall of classical verse forms was first published in book form in 1885.
Thomas Gray (1716–71) was one of the most influential poets of the eighteenth century, probably best remembered today for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. In this 1882 biography, Edmund... Læs mere
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... Læs mere
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... Læs mere