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Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.
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Horace Walpole
Born September 24, 1717London, EnglandDied March 2, 1797London, England
Writer, historian, politician
"I am what I always was, a [fervent supporter of] liberty in every part ...
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Horace Walpole - (1717 - 1797)
English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian, essayist, playwright, and letter writer.
One of the most flamboyant personalities in eighteenth-century English lette...
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Horace Walpole's literary productions reflect an extraordinary range of talents and interests: author of the first and most influential Gothic novel in English and of the first example of Gothic drama...
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Horace Walpole was a significant figure in literary history, but his reputation would stand even higher if he had excelled in what today are regarded as the "major" genres. He wrote a pioneering book ...
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Horace Walpole is known to literary scholars as the founder of a significant literary genre, the gothic novel, which he initiated with the publication of The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by ...
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In the following excerpt from The Haunted Castle: A Study of the Elements of English Romanticism (1964), Railo discusses the importance of castle imagery—and specifically Strawberry Hill—...
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In the following excerpt from her Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, & Lawrence (1980), Wilt examines the religious import of Walpole's Gothic tale.
Horace Walpole's The Castle ...
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In the following excerpt from his Lectures on the Comic Writers, delivered to the Surrey Institute in 1819, Hazlitt declares the ineffectiveness of Walpole's supernatural imagery.
The Castle of...
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In the following essay, Stein examines Walpole's attitude toward Shakespeare—especially through his defense of Shakespeare against Voltaire. Stein concludes that, although Walpole regard...
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Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole - (1717 - 1797)
Horace Walpole
Critical Essay by Eino Railo
