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A History of English Criticism, which was originally the English chapter of Saintsbury's monumental three volume, A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe (1900-04), was published separately in 1911 as a revised, adapted and updated edition, complete in itself. The book is the first of its kind and is thus of great historical importance. The history of English criticism, as Saintsbury sees it, passes through three distinct stages: (i) The initial stage ...
One of the pioneering works in literary historiography, the book A Short History of English Literature combines in a remarkable manner the historical and the critical principles that ought to govern any literary history. On Saintbury's own testimony the book is not meant to be "bird's-eye views". It is, in fact, a fine critical survey of the entire history of English literature from its beginning to the end of the Victorian period. Saintsbury's copious ...
