SOURCE: "Caroline Poetry," in A History of Elizabethan Literature, second edition, 1890. Reprint by The Macmillan Company., 1924, pp. 354-93.
Saintsbury was a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century English literary historian and critic. Hugely prolific, he composed histories of English and European literature as well as numerous critical works on individual authors, styles, and periods. In the following excerpt from the second (1890) edition of his History of Elizabethan Literature (reprinted several times during its publishing history), Saintsbury briefly dismisses Vaughan as a poet lacking sustained poetic skill, depth, and originality.
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