Gosse : Sir Edmund (1849-1928), translator, literary historian, introduced Ibsen & other continental writers to English readers.
... argued: "The Gitanjali of Tagore was appreciated and highly praised by many English poets. Conrad's prose ranks as high as any great English writer's. Sarojini Naidu and some others were praised by Gosse, Binyon and De la Mare." Add Santayana whose prose is better than most Englishmen's Thompson rejoined: "Well, the merits of the latter people you mention were extra-literary. Show the works... Western tradition, expression, feeling—even Polish or Russian—can be legitimately expressed in English, however unEnglish it may be, but an Eastern spirit, tradition or temper cannot? He differs from Gosse who told Sarojini Naidu that she must write Indian poems in English—poems with an Indian tradition, feeling, way of expression, not reproduce the English mind and turn, if she wanted to do something ...
... calls Pope and Dryden classics not of poetry, but of prose, he says that they are great in the regions of half poetry; other critics while hesitating to go so far, say in substance much the same thing; Gosse, for instance, calls their poetry the poetry of English rhetoric, which exactly amounts to Matthew Arnold's description of it as Page 125 half poetry. Its own admirers give it the name of ...
... Western tradition, expression, feeling—even Polish or Russian—can be legitimately expressed in English, however unEnglish it may be, but an Eastern spirit, tradition or temper cannot? He differs from Gosse who told Sarojini Naidu that she must write Indian poems in English Page 443 —poems with an Indian tradition, feeling, way of expression, not reproduce the English mind and turn, if she wanted ...
... impotence in expressing fully what may be new or foreign or not commonly appreciable is to forget all innovators and to fall into an error that should have been swept away for good when Symons and Gosse sponsored Sarojini Naidu or Fowler-Wright and Laurence Binyon hailed Harindranath Chattopadhyaya. It is curious to remember that Gosse's advice to Sarojini Naidu amounted to saying: "If you ...
... State Service and Monmohan, Professor of English, Presidency College, Calcutta. Monmohan was a poet. While in England his poetry received appreciation from a number of English critics including Edmund Gosse. Next to Monmohan was Sri Aurobindo followed by their sister Sarojini and the youngest brother Barindra who is alive. 1872-77 With parents in Khulna where his father was Civil ...
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