Edmund Gosse Image source: John Sargent Sir Edmund Gosse was a poet who in 1877 introduced a French form, the 19-line villanelle, into English poetry, and wrote Villanelle I, which is itself not quite a villanelle. More about Edmund Gosse Encyclopedia Britannica Poetic Forms: The Villanelle "Refrain, Again: The Return of the Villanelle" by Amanda Lowry French Ruth Gordon Glenn Gould