George Saintsbury

Smith's Manon had an indifferent reception and weak sales. The three contemporary reviews, all mixed, all expressed anxiety about the work's moral effect. A later translation by Helen Waddell , 1931, provided the...

George Saintsbury wrote in 1913, remembering RMR 's once great popularity, that her books were best read, as they were for generations, in late childhood or early youth. Even then an intelligent boy or girl...

This poem was considered one of CC 's best works. It was praised by Mary Russell Mitford , and George Saintsbury noted its originality (though the passage on the dead wit and writer searching...

The English appearance of this work among Arrowsmith's Two-Shilling Novels was greeted with sneers in the Athenæum and the Academy (the latter in the person of George Saintsbury ). Saintsbury professed to see nothing particularly...

The first number of The Criterion appeared in October 1922, edited by TSE : its title (invented by Vivien Eliot ) declared its intention of assuming the authority of literary judgement. This first issue included...

HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934. Her...

An earlier translator was Charlotte Smith , whose version appeared in probably late 1785. George Saintsbury supplied an introduction for Waddell's translation (which was reprinted in 1934). This work led to another, a play about...