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There are 4 critical essays on Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.
Critical Essays on Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
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 Critical Essay by Jess M. Stein
6,697 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Stein examines Walpole's attitude toward Shakespeare—especially through his defense of Shakespeare against Voltaire. Stein concludes that, although Walpole regarded Shakespeare, highly he was not one of Walpole's literary influences.
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Critical Essay by Eino Railo
3,582 words, approx. 12 pages
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—to The Castle of Otranto.
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Critical Essay by Judith Wilt
2,326 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following excerpt from her Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, & Lawrence (1980), Wilt examines the religious import of Walpole's Gothic tale.
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Critical Essay by William Hazlitt
203 words, approx. 1 pages
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.
There are 14 critical essays on literary works by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford. The Castle of Otranto
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