“Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: Once upon a time.”
About Edmund William Gosse
21 September 1849–16 May 1928
Edmund William Gosse occupies a peculiar and fascinating position in the landscape of English literature. Neither wholly a major poet nor a minor footnote, he exists instead as a crucial connector, a literary ambassador who bridged the austere certainties of Victorian England with the modernist experiments of the…