Walpole, Horace (1717 - 1797) | The Castle Of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto
THE CRITICAL REVIEW (REVIEW DATE JANUARY 1765)
SOURCE: A review of The Castle of Otranto: A Story, by Horace Walpole. The Critical Review 19 (January 1765): 50-1.
In the following excerpt from a negative review of The Castle of Otranto, the critic expresses disapproval of the gross absurdity of the supernatural elements and suggests that the anonymously-published novel is the work of a modern, not medieval, author.
The ingenious translator of this very curious performance [The Castle of Otranto] informs that it was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England; that it was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529; and that the style is of the purest Italian; he also conjectures, that if the story was written near the time when it is supposed to have happened, it must have been between...
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