![]() Gosse Sr was a naturalist who enjoyed some fame in scientific circles as a specialist in sea zoology, until he lost it due to the publication of his ill-advised book titled Omphalos, which is described in this excerpt. Peter Carey lifted from it a famous episode with the Christmas pudding for his Oscar and Lucinda, so if you want to know what it was, check it out. I read it in its entirety some time ago and remember it as a beautiful and sensitive text. James Joyce – “Ulyss… on James Joyce – “The…Įdmund Gosse was a late Victorian/Edwardian writer and critic, whose most famous book remains his autobiography Father and Son, about his childhood spent with his loving but very strictly religious father Philip Gosse. James Joyce – “Ulyss… on James Joyce – “Ulysses” (“Lest… James Joyce – “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (ctd.). ![]()
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