Father And Son Edmund Gosse Sparknotes

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Father and son edmund gosse sparknotes. His account of his childhood in the book father and son has been described as the first psychological biography. Edmund gosse 1849 1928 duration. Father and son is his account of his childhood and his gradual questioning of the fundamentalist religion of his parents. Sir edmund william gosse cb ɡɒs.

Father and son 198. By edmund gosse heinemann 1907 father and son is a classic account of a childhood a much praised autobiography published by edmund gosse in 1907 nearly 20 years after the death of his father. He was strictly brought up in a small protestant sect the plymouth brethren but broke away sharply from that faith. On her deathbed she extracted from gosse s father philip a promise to see that their son.

He was strictly brought up in a small protestant sect the plymouth brethren but broke away sharply from that faith. Biography originally published by heinemann in 1907 my copy was published by penguin books in 1949 synopsis. Books supplies summer reading trend shop. Sir edmund gosse cb 21 september 1849 16 may 1928 was an english poet author and critic.

Father and son is a memoir by poet and critic edmund gosse which he subtitled a study of two temperaments edmund had previously published a biography of his father originally published anonymously. Edmund gosse s present reputation at least outside the scholarly community rests on his autobiography father and son 1907. The book describes edmund s early years in an exceptionally devout plymouth brethren home. Victorian critic and poet edmund gosse was the child of respected zoologist philip gosse a minister within the plymouth brethren a fundamentalist evangelical sect.

This was not always so. Edmund william gosse gahs was one of the most important and influential english critics during the late victorian and early modern periods. While father and son is the primary relationship explored the early parts of the memoir describe emily gosse s influence on her son particularly during her. His father philip henry gosse was an influential though largely self taught invertebrate zoologist and studen.

Father and son is a chronicle of edmund gosse s background indeed is a clash of two temperaments notably written in pain not anger. Gosse s parents philip and emily gosse were deeply.