"King of Critics": George Saintsbury, 1845-1933, Critic, Journalist, Historian, ProfessorUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 386 Seiten An early advocate of art for art's sake, George Saintsbury became, for the English reader of the 1880s, the interpreter of all French literature, and later, a pioneer in comparative literature and historian of English prosody and prose rhythm. His early years at Oxford shaped his literary attitudes for life. After a decade as a schoolmaster, he was for many years a leading London journalist, then professor of English at the University of Edinburgh. Eighteen more years saw a steady flow of prefaces and essays and a history of the French novel. In "King of Critics" one meets a man of myriad literary tastes who wished to know the whole history of European literature and share it all with readers. He loved equally the purest lyrics of Shelley and the complexity of Donne, the richness of Rabelais, the panorama of Scott and medieval romance, and the profound depths of irony in Swift and Ecclesiastes, and always urged upon the reader the joys of minor writers. "King of Critics" is a fascinating study not only of Saintsbury, but of the literary world of Victorian-Edwardian England. It will appeal to a wide variety of readers, particularly those interested in biography and literary history and criticism. |
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A MidVictorian Boy | 1 |
Oxford Tempering | 13 |
Manchester Guernsey and Elgin | 35 |
English Parnassianism | 57 |
The Saturday Review | 87 |
On Home Rule | 103 |
Reviews and Biographies | 115 |
The Essayist and Historian of English Literature | 131 |
The New Hallam | 227 |
The Narrowing Reach and the Formal Bent | 243 |
Other Writing 18951920 | 265 |
La Princesse Lointaine | 283 |
Friends and the Daily Round 191633 | 295 |
Finale | 307 |
Abbreviations | 321 |
Notes | 323 |
W T Stead and Churton Collins | 147 |
A Clock That Stopped | 161 |
The Lean Year and the Man | 181 |
Edinburgh Professor 18951915 | 199 |
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Seite 370 - Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay. Selected and Annotated, with an Introductory Essay, by GEORGE SAINTSBURY. Large crown Svo, printed on handmade paper, parchment antique or cloth, 12s.