George Saintsbury

ML was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe 's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper , who...

Byron praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from...

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...

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...

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...

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...