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George Saintsbury

Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860George Saintsbury Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 PREFACE Of the essays in this volume, the introductory paper on "The Kinds of Criticism" has not before appeared in print. All the rest, with one exception (the Essay on Lockhart which appeared in the...

A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)George Saintsbury A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) PREFACE In the execution of the present task (which I took over about two years ago from hands worthier than mine, but then more occupied) some difficulties of necessity ...

A Letter BookGeorge Saintsbury A Letter Book / Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing PREFACE When my publishers were good enough to propose that I should undertake this book, they were also good enough to suggest that the Introduction should be of a character some...

A History of the French Novel. Volume 2. To the Close of the 19th CenturyGeorge Saintsbury A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 / To the Close of the 19th Century PREFACE "The second chantry" (for it would be absurd to keep "temple") of this work "is not like the first"; in one respect especiall...

A Short History of French LiteratureGeorge Saintsbury A Short History of French Literature PREFACEAn attempt to present to students a succinct history of the course of French literature compiled from an examination of that literature itself, and not merely from previous accounts of it is, I belie...

A History of the French Novel. Volume 1. From the Beginning to 1800Saintsbury George A History of Elizabethan Literature CHAPTER I FROM TOTTEL'S "MISCELLANY" TO SPENSER In a work like the present, forming part of a larger whole and preceded by another part, the writer has the advantage of being a...

Sir Walter ScottSaintsbury George Sir Walter Scott PREFACE To the very probable remark that 'Another little book about Scott is not wanted,' I can at least reply that apparently it is, inasmuch as the publishers proposed this volume to me, not I to them. And I believe that, as a matter of fact, n...

A History of Elizabethan LiteratureSaintsbury George A History of Elizabethan Literature CHAPTER I FROM TOTTEL'S "MISCELLANY" TO SPENSER In a work like the present, forming part of a larger whole and preceded by another part, the writer has the advantage of being almost wholly free from a difficu...