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Let its writers make time to write English more as a learned language; and completing that correction of style which had only gone a certain way in the last century, raise the general level of language towards their own. If there be a weakness in Mr. Saintsbury's view, it is perhaps in a tendency to regard style a little too independently of matter.
Various editions of separate works; Cranford, in Standard English Classics, etc. Life: see Dictionary of National Biography. Criticism: see Saintsbury's Nineteenth-Century Literature. Kingsley. Texts: Works, Chester edition; Hypatia, Westward Ho! etc., in Everyman's Library. Life: Letters and Memories, by his wife; by Kaufmann.
General and Non-Dramatic The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vols. IV., V., and VI. Courthope's A History of English Poetry, Vol. Schelling's English Literature during the Lifetime of Shakespeare. Seecombe and Allen's The Age of Shakespeare, 2 vols. Saintsbury's A History of Elizabethan Literature. Dictionary of National Biography for lives of Lyly, Sidney, Hooker.
Gosse's History of Eighteenth Century Literature begins with 1660. Garnett's The Age of Dryden. Phillips's Popular Manual of English Literature, Vol. Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature. Saintsbury's Life of Dryden. Macaulay's Essay on Dryden. Dryden's Essays on the Drama, edited by Strunk. Fowler's Life of Locke. Stephen's History of Thought in the Eighteenth Century.
Bailey's The Novels of George Meredith: A Study. Trevelyan's The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith. Beach's The Comic Spirit in George Meredith. Lionel Johnson's The Art of Thomas Hardy. Macdonell's Thomas Hardy. Abercrombie's Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study. Saxelby's Thomas Hardy Dictionary. Benson's Walter Pater. Paul's Matthew Arnold. Saintsbury's Matthew Arnold.
Harrison's Early Victorian Literature; Saintsbury's A History of Nineteenth Century Literature; Walker's The Age of Tennyson; same author's The Greater Victorian Poets; Morley's Literature of the Age of Victoria; Stedman's Victorian Poets; Mrs.
The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vol. Snell's The Age of Transition, 1400-1580. Morley's English Literature, Vols. VI. and VII. Minto's Characteristics of English Poets, pp. 69-130. Saintsbury's Short History of English Literature, pp. 157-218. Dictionary of National Biography, articles on Malory, Caxton, Henryson, Gawain Douglas, Dunbar, Tyndale, Wyatt, and Surrey.
"She will know well enough what I come for," she said to herself, and she felt it the more important to ignore Mrs. Saintsbury's penetration by every polite futility; this was due to them both: and she did not go till the second day after. Mrs. Saintsbury came down into the darkened, syringa-scented library to find her, and give her a fan. "You still live, Jenny," she said, kissing her gaily.
Vast and learned treatises have been written on the prose rhythms of the Greeks and Romans, and Saintsbury's History of English Prose Rhythm is a monumental collection of wonderful prose passages in English, with the scansion of "long" and "short" syllables and of "feet" marked after a fashion that seems to please no one but the author.
George Saintsbury's verdict is approved by the majority of the greatest modern critics of Milton: "In loftiness sublimity of thought, and majesty of expression, both sustained at almost superhuman pitch, he has no superior, and no rival except Dante." Mastery of Verse.
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