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George Saintsbury was an influential British writer, literary critic, and historian. His works spanned across various fields including literary criticism, historical research, and biography, having a profound impact on 19th-century British literature.

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Famous George Saintsbury Quotes

“When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.”

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Book:A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers

Source: A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers

“Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.”

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Book:A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day

Source: A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day

“One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.”

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Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

About the Author

Born: October 23, 1845
Died: January 28, 1933
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 26

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The English NovelRelated source material

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A Last Vintage: Essays and PapersRelated source material

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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present dayRelated source material

George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume : a New Collection of His Essays and PapersRelated source material

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