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Horace and Walpole's
Pope used the model of Horace to satirise life under George II, especially what he regarded as the widespread corruption tainting the country under Walpole's influence and the poor quality of the court's artistic taste.
The immense, overwhelming presence of Gormenghast Castle ; its ' umbrageous ceilings ', its ' empire of red rust ' and the way in which it shapes and deforms the personalities of those who dwell in and under it, marks Gormenghast out as one of the great Gothic edifices, as Hill House in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House or Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.
Otranto is the setting of Horace Walpole's book, The Castle of Otranto, which is generally held to be the first gothic novel.
Horace Walpole's 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto, invented the Gothic fiction genre.
But see also Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George II ( London, 1845 ); Lord Stanhope's History of England ( London, 1858 ); Lecky's History of England ( 1885 ); and ED Adams, The Influence of Grenville on Pitt's Foreign Policy ( Washington, 1904 ).
The standard edition of her letters is in the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence vols.
Early examples in this genre include Matilda in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Emily in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, and Antonia in Matthew Lewis's The Monk.
* Strawberry Hill House, Horace Walpole's Gothic revival villa in Strawberry Hill, London
He also achieved great success as Raymond in The Count of Narbonne, a play taken from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto.
There is no sufficient ground for Horace Walpole's charge that the fall of Sir Robert was brought about by Hardwicke's treachery.
The theme of the crumbling, haunted castle is a key feature of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, a late 18th century novel which largely contributed in defining the Gothic genre.
* First stage of Horace Walpole's Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival ' Castle ' at Strawberry Hill is completed.
* Blackstone audiobooks unabridged presentation of Horace Walpole's classic Gothic Romance " The Castle of Otranto "' and audio adaptation of " The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ".
He translated various literary works into Italian, notably, John Milton's Paradise Lost and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, as well as other writings of Milton and Lucan.
He also wrote Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover ( 1855 ), and A History of Court Fools ( 1858 ), and edited Horace Walpole's Journal of the Reign of George III.
His originality lay in combining the popular Oriental elements with the Gothic stylings of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ).
This style predates the so-called invention of Strawberry Hill Gothic at Horace Walpole's house by nearly twenty years.
It had begun on a small scale in the 18th century under the stimulus of Romanticism, a trend initiated by Horace Walpole's house Strawberry Hill.
He took a similar approach for Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and others.
This work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's ' Melmoth the Wanderer ' in 1820 on to modern times.
During the 1990s he started his own publishing company, Vertigo, which, among other things, has published a Swedish translation of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (" Borgen i Otranto, 1996 ) in Paul Soares ' translation.

Horace and Castle
Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled " A Gothic Story ".
In literature, Gothic novel combines dark elements of both horror and romance: English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first writers who explored this genre.
The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole.
* Horace Walpole-The Castle of Otranto " a story, translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto ", the first Gothic novel
By 1751, when Brown was beginning to be widely known, Horace Walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of Brown's work at Warwick Castle:
* New Castle Historical Society: Horace Greeley House
Manfred's name was borrowed by the English author Horace Walpole for the main character of his short novel The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ).
* Horace Walpole-The Castle of Otranto
The 1st Duke of Chandos sold the Castle Hotel to John Walcot who in turn sold it to Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey ( 1725-1774 ), known as ‘ Clive of India ’, who amassed such wealth during his time in that country that Horace Walpole writing from London to a country friend said: ‘ you will be frightened by the dearness of everything ...
A respite from Childers's military career was offered on 27 July 1917, when Sir Horace Plunkett asked that he be assigned to the secretariat of Prime Minister Lloyd George's Home Rule Convention initiative in Dublin Castle.
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole.
“ Hamlet and Horace Walpole ’ s The Castle of Otranto .” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.
While he tried to write a novel like Horace Walpole ’ s The Castle of Otranto, he mainly adhered to theatre, writing The East Indian, but seven years elapsed before it appeared onstage at Drury Lane.
From 1751 to 1757, he designed and created Enmore Castle, Enmore, Somerset, which received ' the dismissive mockery of Horace Walpole '.

Horace and Otranto
The first and most obvious connection to William Shakespeare is presented by Horace Walpole himself, in the preface to the second edition of Otranto, in which he " praises Shakespeare as a truly original genius and the exemplar of imaginative liberty, as a part of a defense of Otranto's design ".
* The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 1924
In addition to this, the sombre and sweeping tone of his Meditations Among The Tombs ( for example, " the dreadful pleasure inspired by gazing at fallen monuments and mouldering tombs ") has led to his being placed amongst the 18th Century ' Graveyard School ' of poets, rendering his work an important influence on Horace Walpole ’ s ' The Castle of Otranto ' of 1764 and consequently, the entire genre of Gothic Literature and the later Romanticism which the genre fuelled.
In Spring 2008 she was invited to exhibit at the famous Strawberry Hill House in London, home of Horace Walpole, who wrote the first Gothic novel " Castle of Otranto ".

Horace and 1764
Horace Walpole wrote to a friend in 1764 of " the Macaroni Club, which is composed of all the traveled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses.
One of the first literary results of this fascinations was Gothic novel, a literary genre that began in Britain with The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole.
Beginning with Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, it also included Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) and John Polidori's The Vampyre ( 1819 ), which helped found the modern horror genre.

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