Saintsbury

American  

[seynts-buh-ree] / ˈseɪnts bə ri /

noun

1. George Edward Bateman 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.

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Saintsbury British  

/ -brɪ, ˈseɪntsbərɪ /

noun

1. George Edward Bateman. 1845–1933, British literary critic and historian; author of many works on English and French literature

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Saintsbury

While Dickens appears to have added the "smoking" to the name, the English literary critic George Saintsbury hypothesized in his 1920 "Notes on a Cellar-Book" that it was born at Oxford University.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

It was through Saintsbury I came to read the French, especially Sainte-Beuve, and another critical line that interested me was Peacock/Meredith/Huxley.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Unlike the critic George Saintsbury, who looked to 18th-century literature for “repose and refreshment,” Damrosch never idealizes or whitewashes.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2019

Harvest at Saintsbury was due to start Monday and Ward said "We'll probably put that off a couple of days."

From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2014

George Saintsbury in his scholarly and fascinating History of Criticism in Europe cannot forgive Aristotle for this "pestilent heresy," as he calls it.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert