Gosson

Gosson on the one side, Lodge, the dramatist, upon the other, exchanged compliments with an energy which showed that one at least of them had not in vain graduated in "the school of abuse".

English literary criticism Various

It was violently resented as treason by the playwrights and journalists who still professed to reckon Gosson among their ranks.

English literary criticism Various

Gosson wrote the comedy of "Captain Mario;" it has not been printed, but

A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

Gosson demurred to Lodge in 1580 with his _Playes Confuted in

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Gosson had denounced poetry as "the vizard of vanity, wantonness, and folly"; or, in Sidney's paraphrase, as "the mother of lies and the nurse of abuse".

English literary criticism Various

Taking all this into consideration, it is extremely interesting to find Gosson publishing in 1579 his famous

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

As we shall later see reason to suppose, Lyly never became, as did his acquaintance Gosson, a very seriously-minded person.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

Like Pettie and Gosson he must share with Lyly the credit of creation.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

Gosson, who, "a Kentish man born" like our hero, and entering Oxford a year after him (in 1572), must, I feel sure, have been one of his friends.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

The attempt was not entirely fruitless, for it led to the interesting discovery that the fully-developed euphuism was not the creation of Lyly, or Pettie, or indeed of any one individual, but of a circle of young Oxford men which included Gosson, Watson, Hakluyt, and possibly many others.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925