ABSTRACT
The Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh should have been heard with respect when in his frequently reprinted ‘Short History of English Literature’ he ventured the ensuing remarks on Herbert. But his reservations – like the indifference of a later successor to his chair (No. 71) – were slowly becoming irrelevant and would eventually be bypassed altogether. See also above, pp. 29–30.
Source: Saintsbury, from The Metaphysicals – The Lyric Poets – The Miscellanists, etc., in ‘A Short History of English Literature’ (1898), pp. 414–16.
