ABSTRACT
Extracts from review, The Academy (10 October 1874). Quoted in Dowden, pp. 248–9.
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (1845–1933), English man of letters, was educated at Merton College, Oxford, from which he took his B. A. in 1868. He began his journalistic career as a critic for the Academy and later became an important member of the staff of the Saturday Review. From 1895 to 1915 he was professor of rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh University. His work gives the impression of an immense range of reading. Among his many works are A History of Criticism (1900–4) in three volumes, A History of English Prosody (1906–21) in three volumes, The History of English Criticism (1911) and A Historyof the French Novel (1917–19).
