A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. - Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman 1845-1933. (Edinburgh Blackwood, 1961)
v.1. Classical and mediaeval criticism. --v.2. From the renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy. --v.3. Modern criticism. Appendix I. The Oxford chair of poetry. Appendix II. American criticism.
Keywords: Criticism -- Hist; Literature -- Hist. & crit; Literature, Medieval