A Last Vintage: A Last Vintage (1950) : Essays and Papers by George Saintsbury (Routledge Revivals)

A Last Vintage: A Last Vintage (1950) : Essays and Papers by George Saintsbury (Routledge Revivals)

by George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (Author)

Synopsis

The Editors of the Saintsbury Memorial Volume have been encouraged by the welcome which that book received to make a final gathering of George Saintbury's writings.

From a score of different sources they have chosen essays and papers that have lain uncollected, with their themes ranging from Captain Marryat to Erasmus, from Rosetti to Xenephon, from Swinburne to Balzac's early pot boilers.

Included is an entrancing study of the literary associations of the city of Bath; and the editors have followed Saintbury's own example by collecting a Scrap Book more than thirty shorter notes and jeux d'esprit on all kinds of subjects: wigs, sensation novelists, Drummond and Ben Jonson, George Sand, compulsory Greek at Oxford, Shakespeare and Welsh, Laurence Sterne tittle-tattle, Marcel Proust, and much else in true Saintsburian vein.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 260
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 31 Jan 2019

ISBN 10: 1138563498
ISBN 13: 9781138563490

Author Bio
George Saintsbury was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur. He became professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh, a position he held until 1915.