Gosse
Gosse names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Gosse EDMUND, an English author
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDMUND, an English author; son of Philip Henry Gosse; born in London, Sept. 21, 1849. As a poet he is known by "Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets"; "On Viol and Flute"; "The Unknown Lover." From 1904-1914 Librarian of the House of Lords. Some of his criticisms and biographies are contained in "Seventeenth Century Studies" and "From Shakespeare to Pope." He wrote also in prose "Northern Studies" (1879); "Gossip in a Library" (1891); "Questions at Issue" (1893); "History of Modern English Literature" (1897); "Life and Letters of Dr. John Donne" (1899); "Coventry Patmore" (1905); "Father and Son" (1907); "Portraits and Studies" (1912); "Collected Poems" (1913).
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
gos, Edmund William (1849-), an English poet, lecturer, and literary critic. Mr. Gosse has made a special study of Scandinavian literature, the results of such study having been given to the world in Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe. Among his other works may be mentioned Life of Gray, From Shakespeare to Pope, History of Eighteenth Century Literature, History of Modern English Literature . His poetical writings include Madrigals, Songs and Sonnets, On Viol and Flute, In Russet and Silver.
Gosse PHILIP HENRY, an English naturalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PHILIP HENRY, an English naturalist; born in Worcester, England, April 10, 1810. In 1827 he went to Newfoundland as a clerk, and was afterward in turn farmer in Canada, schoolmaster in Alabama, and professional naturalist in Jamaica. Returning to England, he published "Canadian Naturalist" (184 (1840 ). He wrote "Birds of Jamaica" (1851); "A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica" (1851); "Naturalist's Ramble on the Devonshire Coast" (1853); "Aquarium" (1854); "Manual of Marine Zoology" (1855-1856); "Romance of Natural History" (1860-1862), his best known work; "Actinologia Britannica" (1860); "Popular British Ornithology" (1853). In the year 1886 he placed in the hands of Dr. C. T. Hudson the notes and drawings of a lifetime on the microscopic study of the Rotifera. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856. He died in Torquay, Devon, in 1888. EDMUND GOSSE
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 Edmund Gosse was still alive; he was knighted in 1925 and died in 1928. Of the long book lists given here, almost everything has fallen away except one title Collier's slips in without comment: "Father and Son" (1907), the account of his childhood under his Plymouth Brethren father, which is now read as a classic of English autobiography while his "Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets" and other verse go unread. Philip Henry Gosse has had a similar reshuffling of reputation: his popular seaside and aquarium books are period pieces, but he is remembered for "Omphalos" (1857), the attempt to reconcile fossils with Genesis by arguing that creation was made to look ancient, a book neither entry mentions and which is still cited in arguments over creationism. Modern readers usually meet both men together, through the son's portrait of the father.
Written for this edition, 2026.