The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
George Saintsbury Quotes
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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| Birth: | 23rd October, 1845 |
| Death: | 28th January, 1933 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Critic, Historian, Writer |
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George Edward Bateman Saintsbury was born in Southampton, England. He was an English writer, literary historian, and critic. He earned a first class B.A. degree in Classical Mods in 1865 and an M.A. degree in 1868 from Merton College, Oxford University. He served as a professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh from 1895-1915. He wrote several books include: Primer of French Literature, A short history of French literature, A History of Elizabethan Literature, Sir Walter Scott, The earlier Renaissance, Loci Critici, Historical Manual of English Prosody, A Short History of English Literature, A History of English Criticism, and A History of English Prose Rhythm.
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