George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury in 1913 developed an attack on this book as very nearly consummate in badness. . . . a fair example of the worst imitations of Mrs. Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis conjointly, though without...

It was in connection with this play (but before he read the manuscript) that George Saintsbury told HW she had the authentic mark of the Maker [that is, the poet] on your forehead.

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...

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...

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...

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...