Father And Son Edmund Gosse Summary

The book describes edmund s early years in an exceptionally devout plymouth brethren home.

Father and son edmund gosse summary. Sir edmund gosse cb 21 september 1849 16 may 1928 was an english poet author and critic. 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. His account of his childhood in the book father and son has been described as the first psychological biography. Edmund william gosse gahs was one of the most important and influential english critics during the late victorian and early modern periods.

He was strictly brought up in a small protestant sect the plymouth brethren but broke away sharply from that faith. 21 september 1849 16 may 1928 was an english poet author and critic. The tragedy of edmund gosse lorella rouster the comedy was superficial and the tragedy essential edmund gosse says of his life in the classic father and son. Edmund gosse s present reputation at least outside the scholarly community rests on his autobiography father and son 1907.

In chapters 3 and 4 gosse presents events of his seventh year chief among them his mother s death. He was strictly brought up in a small protestant sect the plymouth brethren but broke away sharply from that faith. This memoir of gosse s childhood and young adulthood details his upbringing by parents whose faith and literal approach to scripture directed all their domestic practices. This was not always so.

His mother who died early and painfully of breast cancer was a writer of christian tracts. 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. The tragedy he speaks of seems to be the fact that his parents were firm fundamentalist christians who rejected darwin s theory of evolution. A study of two temperaments 6 year old edmund repeatedly warned by his puritan father against offending a jealous god by worshipping any rivals of wood or.

Sir edmund william gosse cb ɡɒs. On her deathbed she extracted from gosse s father philip a promise to see that their son. Gosse s parents philip and emily gosse were deeply. Summary victorian critic and poet edmund gosse was the child of respected zoologist philip gosse a minister within the plymouth brethren a fundamentalist evangelical sect.

In edmund gosse s father and son.