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  

/ ˈseɪntsbərɪ, -brɪ /

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

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

In his Short History of English Literature, George Saintsbury says Gray was “probably the best-read man of letters of his time in Europe.”

From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2013

Prof. Saintsbury considers that scholasticism was the fortunate training school in which all the possibilities of modern prose were brought out and naturally introduced into the budding languages of the time.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh