A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

by John W. Cousin

ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL (1829). —Biographer, ed., etc. Translator of Dante's Hell (1865), Lives of Famous Poets (1878), Life of Keats (1887), Memoir of Dante G. Rossetti, and has ed. many poets, etc.

RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844). —Novelist. John Holdsworth, Chief Mate (1874), A Sailor's Sweetheart (1877), An Ocean Tragedy (1881), The Convict Ship (1895), List, ye Landsmen (1897), Overdue (1903), The Yarn of Old Harbour Town (1905), etc.

SAINTSBURY, GEORGE EDWARD BATEMAN, LL.D., D.Litt., etc. (1845). —Critic and biographer. Short History of French Literature, etc. (1882), Essays in English Literature (1890), Nineteenth Century Literature (1896), A History of Criticism (1900-4), History of English Prosody, vol. i. (1906), etc., Lives of Dryden (English Men of Letters) and Sir W. Scott, etc.

SANDYS, JOHN EDWIN, Litt.D. (1844). —Scholar; joint ed. of Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, etc. (1891), History of Classical Scholarship from Sixth Century, B.C., to the End of the Middle Ages (1903), History of Classical Scholarship from Revival of Learning to Present Day (1907), etc.; has produced many ed. of classics.

SAYCE, ARCHIBALD HENRY, D.Litt., LL.D., etc. (1846). —Orientalist and philologist, etc. Principles of Comparative Philology (1874), Babylonian Literature (1877), Monuments of the Hittites (1881), Ancient Empires of the East (1884), Races of the Old Testament (1891), Babylonians and Assyrians (1900), Archæology of Cuneiform Inscriptions (1907), etc.