1st Edition

Revival: George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume (1945) A New Collection of His Essays and Papers

    232 Pages
    by Routledge

    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    This Memorial Volume is being published to mark the centenary year of the author's birth. It contains essays, hitherto uncollected in book form, on authors such as Dryden, Herrick, Ben Jonson, Browning, Coleridge; studies of Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Shelley, Disraeli; and papers on subjects that range from "The Qualities of Wine" to "Eighteenth Century Poetry". There is a biographical memoir of Saintsbury by Professor A. Blyth Webster and personal portraits by Professor Oliver Elton, Sir Herbert Grierson, and others. Compiled under the co-editorship of Dr John W. Oliver  and Mr Augustus Muir (who were students ofthe author's at the University of Edinburgh) and of Dr A. M. Clark, lecturer in the English Department at that University, this volume will be welcomed by the steadily increasing number of those who appreciate the richness of Saintsbury's personality and the value of his work as a critic and literary historian.

    Preface

    George Saintsbury. By Oliver Elton

    Some Personal Memories. By Sir Herbert Grierson

    Recollections of Sainsbury. By John Purves

    A Biographical Memoir. By A. Blyth Webster

    Essays and Studies by George Saintsbury

    John Dryden the Dramatist

    Fitzgerald's "Omar Khayyam"

    Journalism Fifty Years Ago

    The Poetry of Herrick

    The Authorized Version of the Bible

    Irony

    Robert Browning

    Oxford Sights and Scenes

    The Two Tragedies

    Oliver Goldsmith and "The Vicar of Wakefield"

    Disraeli: A Portrait

    Eighteenth-Century Poetry

    Inaugural Address at Edinburgh

    A Saintsbury Scrap Book

    I "The Master of Ballantrae"

    II The Qualities of Wine

    III On Ben Jonson

    IV On The Teaching of English

    V Personal Sketches

    VI Some Notes on Colleridge

    VII John Stuart Blackie

    VIII Lectures on Living Writers

    IX R.I.S, Henley and Sir Walter Raleigh

    X Men of Letters as Milch Cows

    XI Scottish Literature

    Address to george Saintsbury on his Seventy-Seventh Birthday and His Reply

    Biography

    George Edward Bateman Saintsbury