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Title: A Saintsbury Miscellany : Selections from his Essays and Scrapbooks..,.
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 1947. orig. cloth, dustwrapper. 21x14cm, x, 246 pp.. Rubbed. Good. In a heavily chipped, torn & rubbed dustwrapper. ¶ Full title reads: "A Saintsbury Miscellany : Selections from his Essays and Scrapbooks. With Personal Portraits by Sir Herbert Grierson and Others and a Biographical Memoir by A. Blyth Webster". Contents: George Saintsbury; Some Personal Memories; Recollections of Saintsbury; The Professor; A Bibliographical Memoir; Essays and Studies by George Saintsbury: John Dryden the Dramatist; FitzGerald's "Omar Khayyám"; Journalism Fifty Years Ago; The Poetry of Herrick; The Authorized Version of the Bible; Irony; Robert Browning; Oxford Sights and Scenes; The Two Tragedies; Oliver Goldsmith and "The Vigar of Wakefield"; Disraeli: " A Portrait; Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Inaugural Address at Edinburgh; A Sainsbury Scrap Book: "The Master of Ballantrae"; The Qualities of Wine; ON Ben Johson; On the Teaching of EnglishPersonal Sketches; Some Notes on Coleridge; John Stuart Blackie; Lectures on Living Writers; R.L.S. Henley,and Sir Walter Raleigh; Men of Letters as Milch Cows; Scottish Literature; Address to George Saintsbury on his Seventy-Seventh Birthday and his Reply.

Keywords: English Literary History, Literature, Criticism, , , , , ,

Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS017518I