Author:George Saintsbury

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George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (1845–1933)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. English writer and critic. This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "G. Sa."

Works

• Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 (2 vols., 1890-1895)
• A Primer of French Literature (1880)
• Short History of French Literature (1882)
• History of Elizabethan Literature (1887)
• Essays on French Novelists (1891)
• Miscellaneous Essays (1892)
• Corrected Impressions (1895)
• History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1896)
• Poems of John Donne (1896) Introduction
• The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (1897) Contributing Editor
• A Short History of English Literature (1898, 3rd ed. 1903)
• Introduction and brief biography of Honore de Balzac, 1901
• A History of Criticism (3 vols., 1900-1904)
• The Earlier Renaissance (1901) Contributing Editor
• Loci Critici, Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice (1903) Editor
• Minor Caroline Poets of the Caroline Period (2 vols., 1905-1906)
• A History of English Prosody from the 12th Century to the Present Day (i., 1906; ii., 1908; iii., 1910)
• The Later Nineteenth Century (1909)

Essays

• Modern English Prose (1876)
• “Balzac, Honoré de” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Corneille, Pierre” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Corneille, Thomas” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “French Literature” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Gautier, Théophile” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Joinville, Jean” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “La Fontaine, Jean de” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Michelet, Jules” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Montaigne, Michel de” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Quinet, Edgar” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Pascal, Blaise” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (in part)
• “Rabelais, François” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Racine, Jean” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Romance” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Rousseau, Jean Jacques” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Staël, Madame de” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Thiers, Louis Adolphe” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Villon, François” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1933, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.