Saintsbury

[seynts-buh-ree]

noun

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

Saintsbury

/ -brɪ, ˈseɪntsbərɪ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

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Saintsbury was a terrible Tory, but good on the French.

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I don’t remember that Saintsbury was ever funny.

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But what really started me writing critical essays was my reading of George Saintsbury.

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