In Praise of History
Earl Miner, 1 March 1984
A History of Japanese Literature. Vol. I: The First Thousand Years
by Shuichi Kato, translated by David Chibbett.
Macmillan, 319 pp., £20, September 1979,0 333 19882 4 Show More
by Shuichi Kato, translated by David Chibbett.
Macmillan, 319 pp., £20, September 1979,
A History of Japanese Literature. Vol. II: The Years of Isolation
by Shuichi Kato, translated by Don Sanderson.
Macmillan, 230 pp., £20, October 1983,0 333 22088 9 Show More
by Shuichi Kato, translated by Don Sanderson.
Macmillan, 230 pp., £20, October 1983,
A History of Japanese Literature. Vol. III: The Modern Years
by Shuichi Kato, translated by Don Sanderson.
Macmillan, 307 pp., £20, October 1983,0 333 34133 3 Show More
by Shuichi Kato, translated by Don Sanderson.
Macmillan, 307 pp., £20, October 1983,
Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature
by Makoto Ueda.
Stanford, 451 pp., $28.50, September 1983,0 8047 1166 6 Show More
by Makoto Ueda.
Stanford, 451 pp., $28.50, September 1983,
Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake
by Edward Seidensticker.
Allen Lane, 302 pp., £16.95, September 1983,0 7139 1597 8 Show More
by Edward Seidensticker.
Allen Lane, 302 pp., £16.95, September 1983,
“... for dead. The last full-scale history of English literature that anybody has bothered over was David Daiches’s two-volume Critical History of English Literature. When it appeared, in 1960, it was thought gallant but defeated. For a successful history of English from a single pen, we must no doubt go back to Saintsbury, who is still readable. There is ... ”
