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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Edmund Gosse (1849–1928)

Gosse, Edmund William. An English poet, essayist, and critic; born in London, Sept. 21, 1849; died in 1928. As a poet he is known by ‘Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets’; ‘On Viol and Flute’; ‘The Unknown Lover’; etc. Some of his literary criticisms and biographies are contained in ‘Seventeenth-Century Studies’ and ‘From Shakespeare to Pope’; ‘Portraits and Studies’ (1912); ‘Collected Essays’ (1913). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).