Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Edmund Gosse

Born: September 21, 1849
Died: May 16, 1928 (aged 78)
Bio: Sir Edmund William Gosse was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith.
Known for:
- Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (1907)
- Gossip in a library
- Books on the table (1921)
- The Jacobean Poets (1894)
- More Books on the Table (1914)