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Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849 鈥 1928) was an English poet, lecturer, and author. Known for his memoir Father and Son published in 1907, he also published a multitude of poetry books and essays. He was awarded an honorary MA by Cambridge University so he could teach English literature and was later knighted in 1925.听
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