A HISTORY OF CRITICISM AND LITERARY TASTE
Reading edition
IIgnorantium temeraria plerumque sunt judicia.
—Polycarp Leyser.
A History of Criticism
AND
LITERARY TASTE IN EUROPE
FROM THE EARLIEST TEXTS TO THE PRESENT DAY
BY
GEORGE SAINTSBURY
M.A. Oxon.; Hon. LL.D. Aberd.
PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. III.
MODERN CRITICISM
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MCMIV
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