ABSTRACT
Vol. xiii, Cambridge, 1916, p. 210
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) voluminous editor and critic, was one of the chief contributors to the monumental Cambridge History. He lived and worked in London 1876–96, and then became Professor of English Literature in Edinburgh until 1915. His friendship with Bridges may explain his interest in Hopkins, which is also demonstrated in A History of English Prosody (1910) and A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1896), where he spoke of the ‘remarkable talents of Mr. Gerard Manley Hopkins’ (p. 294) and grouped him with the Pre-Raphaelites.
