“In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life.”
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…