Saintsbury

[ seynts-buh-ree ]

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George Edward Bate·man [beyt, -m, uh, n], 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.

Saintsbury

/ -brɪ; ˈseɪntsbərɪ /

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SaintsburyGeorge Edward Bateman18451933MBritishWRITING: literary criticHISTORY: historian George Edward Bateman. 1845–1933, British literary critic and historian; author of many works on English and French literature

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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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