Edmund Gosse

INTRODUCTION il;: I Edmund Gosse knew everyone; no one really knew Gosse. He dined with André Gide; corresponded with Henrik Ibsen; gossiped with Henry James; joked with Robert Louis Stevenson; and had tea with Thomas Hardy. When, in a quest for an academic position, he applied to Trinity...

INTRODUCTION There is, in my judgment, no more certain method of creating, or increasing, a distaste for poetry than the setting of exercises in Enghsh verse composition in " the manner of Milton " as a school task. If a genuine interest in the pattern and content of verse has been aroused,...