Academic literature on the topic 'Gosse, edmund, 1849-1928'

An Englishman in Vartov Church, 1872[En englander i Vartov Kirke, 1872]Af S. A. J. BradleyEdmund Gosse, Two Visits to Denmark 1872, 1874 (London, 1911), Ch. V, 78-87.Englanderen Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) var i sin samtid en fremtrædende og indflydelsesrig litterar skikkelse, hvis fortjeneste det var at formidle nordisk litteratur, især forfatteren Henrik Ibsens forfatterskab, hvoraf han oversatte enkelte værker, til den engelsksprogede verden.Som ung mand besøgte Gosse Danmark to gange. Under sine besøg i København i 1872 boede han hos Holmens provst (senere biskop) Bruun Juul Fog og dennes ugifte søster Aline. Hans beretning om disse besøg blev Forst offentliggjort flere ar efter, at besøgene havde fundet sted, hvorfor man af denne og andre årsager ma modtage detaljerne med nogen forsigtighed.Men Gosses beretning er skrevet i en forfriskende selvstændig and, balancerende mellem beundring og kritik, og pa trods af dens mangler er hans impressionistiske beretning af atmosfæren i Vartov kirke i Grundtvigs sidste tid et vigtigt vidnesbyrd.Norden havde pa denne tid ikke nogen mere ekstraordinær personlighed end Grundtvig, siger Gosse, og han giver en kortfattet beretning af Grundtvigs modige og stadige kamp for kirkens frihed. Hans succes, siger Gosse, er bevist i grundtvigianismens udbredelse og i oprettelse af folkehøjskoler.Overrasket over at opdage, at Grundtvig stadig levede og prædikede, besluttede Gosse, at han matte tage ind til Vartov og hore Grundtvig prædike. Skønt Fog - som Clausen og Martensen - gennem hele livet havde varet modstander af Grundtvig, besluttede han at gore Gosse følgeskab.Gosse giver en detaljeret beskrivelse af stemningen i den fyldte kirke, mens man ventede pa Grundtvigs ankomst. Han beskriver den livlige salmesang - “højt og hurtigt i et Staccato af Skjaldens egen Opfindelse” - så forskellig fra den langsomme made som den gang gjaldt i folkekirken. Så gjorde Grundtvig en brat og påfaldende entre. For Gosse at se, var han en utrolig gammel mand, der mere lignede en norsk trold; og med en stemme, der lod som kom den fra en kalder under hans fødder. Efter at have gået rundt blandt den mere eller mindre ekstatiske menighed og modtaget deres hyldest, besteg Grundtvig prædikestolen og prædikede med en dyb, og svigtende, stemme. Hans prædiken, siger Gosse, “advarede os mod falske ånder, og bod os at prøve enhver ånd, om de var af Gud”. Grundtvig mindede da snarere Gosse om en gammel druide. Gosse er taknemmelig for, at han fik denne mulighed for at se og hore Grundtvig, som døde kun en måned senere.

This thesis deals with three writers, George Gissing, Edmund Gosse and Robert Louis Stevenson. I use the words "introversion" and "extroversion" partly in a geographical sense. George Gissing, for example, in spite of Continental influences remained a very English (in some ways almost insular) novelist, and in that sense an introvert. Edmund Gosse, on the other hand, was a very cosmopolitan critic although his style was typically English. Robert Louis Stevenson provides a third angle. Having been born in Edinburgh he was forced into exile for most of his life, and obviously this had a great effect on his writings. Of the three writers most weight is given to Edmund Gosse. In my analysis of George Gissing I concentrate on some of his best known novels, The Unclassed, The Nether World, New Grub Street and Born in Exile. The Emancipated and By the Ionian Sea deal specifically with Italy. There are four chapters on Edmund Gosse. The first concentrates on the early part of his long career when his main interest was Scandinavian literature. The next two chapters give an account of his impressions of and writings on America and France. In the fourth chapter on Edmund Gosse I concentrate on the part of his career when he had become an established authority on his own country's literature. Robert Louis Stevenson, too, is dealt with in four chapters. First I write briefly about his Scottish works, all inspired by his childhood and youth. Next I deal with his two favourite countries, France and the United States, both associated with his Wife, Fanny. The last chapter follows Stevenson to the South Seas where he spent the last few years of his life and wrote some of his best books. The three writers are compared from time to time. Robert Louis Stevenson and Edmund Gosse knew each other well; George Gissing is the odd man out. But his reaction to foreign influences differs from that of the other two and this makes a comparison very interesting.