A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticismSaintsbury, George
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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism
Saintsbury, George
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anders_, as also in reference to Theophrastus, the Alexandrians, and
others, whose substantive works are lost, but with whom Mr Gudeman would
like me to deal in the usual manner of conjectural and inferential
patchwork.
P. 280. I had not observed (oddly enough) that _Clæris_ had crept into
text and headings, where it has no business, and that “Fabius” was
misprinted “Falinus,” till Professor Gudeman kindly brought both to my
notice.
Pp. 410, 411. I owe to Dr Sandys (in _Hermathena_, vol. xii. p. 438) the
removal of certain ignorances or forgetfulnesses here. “Solymarius,” as
I most assuredly ought to have remembered, seeing that the information
is in Warton, was a poem on the Crusades by Gunther, the author of the
better known _Ligurinus_ on Barbarossa, and the “Guntero” to whom I
myself, in vol. ii. p. 96, alluded in connection with Patrizzi.
“Paraclitus” and “Sidonius” were two poems by Warnerius of Basle. I am
even more indebted to Dr Sandys for a sheaf of privately communicated
annotations on vol. i., of many of which I hope to avail myself in a
future edition—if such a thing is called for.
VOLUME II.
P. 23 _sq._ A reference of Hallam’s (_Literature of Europe_, iii. 5, 76,
77) to the _Miscellanies_ of Politian has led some critics, who
apparently do not know the book itself, and have not even read Hallam
carefully, to object to its omission here. Their authority might have
saved them; for he very correctly describes these _Miscellanies_ as
“sometimes grammatical, but more frequently relating to obscure customs
and mythological allusions.” In other words, the book—which _I_ have
read—is hardly, in my sense, critical at all.
P. 29, note 3, l. 3, _for_ “ii.” _read_ “i.” (The _first_ vol. of Pope.)
P. 30, _for_ “with his two great disciples” _read_ “between his master
Horace and his pupil Boileau.”
P. 38, note, _for first sentence read_: “But most of this latter part
had been written in 1548-49, and all must have been before 1550, when T.
died.”
P. 51, l. 7 from bottom, _for_ “Rote” _read_ “Rota.”
P. 67, l. 4, _for_ “prose” _read_ “poor.”
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