Edward Sherman Gould
Encyclopedia
Edward Sherman Gould was a 19th-century United States
author and critic.
, and an early contributor of tales to the Knickerbocker Magazine, to the New World, the Mirror, the The Literary World, and other journals. His signature of “Cassio” in Charles King's American was at one time well known. In 1830 he lectured before the New York Mercantile Library Association on “American Criticism in American Literature.” In his talk, he opposed the prevalent spirit of overflowing praise as injurious to the interests of the country.
In addition to contributing to many literary and theological journals, he wrote:
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
author and critic.
Biography
He was the son of jurist James GouldJames Gould (jurist)
James Gould was a jurist and an early professor at the Litchfield Law School.-Biography:...
, and an early contributor of tales to the Knickerbocker Magazine, to the New World, the Mirror, the The Literary World, and other journals. His signature of “Cassio” in Charles King's American was at one time well known. In 1830 he lectured before the New York Mercantile Library Association on “American Criticism in American Literature.” In his talk, he opposed the prevalent spirit of overflowing praise as injurious to the interests of the country.
Works
Translations:- Alexandre Dumas, Travels in Egypt and Arabia Petraea (1839)
- Dupré, Progress of Democracy (1841)
- Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
, Eugénie GrandetEugénie GrandetEugénie Grandet is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized...
(1841) - Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
, Père Goriot (1842) - Alexandre Dumas, Impressions of Travel in Switzerland
- Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
, Handsome Pecopin - A. Royer, Charles de Bourbon (1842-1843)
In addition to contributing to many literary and theological journals, he wrote:
- Abridgment of Alison's History of Europe (New York, 1843)
- The Very Age, a comedy (1850)
- John Doe and Richard Roe; or, Episodes of Life in New York (1862)
- Good English, or Popular Errors in Language (1867)
- Classical Elocution (1867)
- Supplement to Duyckinck's History of the New World (1871)