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...

In the Academy, George Saintsbury praised the novel as an excellent piece of work, although he thought it too long. He declared: [h]ow [Morna] escapes and returns to Eagle Island, and how poetical justice...

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...

GE began to be remembered quite inaccurately as a humourless and self-righteous preacher, to whom invention was less important than exhortation. In 1895George Saintsbury , one of the shapers of English Literature...

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...

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...

This book was praised by the Pall Mall Gazette and New York Home Journalas sane and healthy, sweet and dainty. Not only that: a serious critic, George Saintsbury , reviewed it for...