George Saintsbury was one of the most influential literary critics, along with Leslie Stephen and Edmund Gosse, of the late Victorian era and early twentieth century. In terms of sheer quantity of writing, he surpassed most of his prolific...

George Saintsbury's literary output was massive. He wrote nearly fifty books and over eight hundred essays, introductions, and reviews. The actual total remains unknown. Among all these there are only five works that can be classified as biographies as...

George Saintsbury's criticism of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is an early version of the New Criticism that would dominate literary criticism in the first half of the 1900s. Saintsbury, writing at the turn of the 20th century, chided Goethe for being too pedagogical. The...

At the time they did it, the idea was wild and possibly crazy. Two young Napa Valley winemakers with experience at Joseph Phelps and Stag's Leap Wine Cellars quit their jobs and put all their money and energy into a new winery specializing...