Matthew Gregory Lewis war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Bühnenautor.
“Matthew Lewis [was] the genre's first punk, the Johnny Rotten of the Gothic novel.”
Stephen King, in Matthew Lewis The Monk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. vi.
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Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), line 273.
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Thomas James Mathias The Pursuits of Literature, revised edition (1797), Dialogue 4, line 316.
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Page 315; "Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine", line 59.
The Monk (1796)
"The Orphan's Prayer", line 29; cited from Titus Strong (ed.) The Common Reader (Greenfield, Mass.: Denio & Phelps, 1819) p. 174.
I know, I know
I am not mad, but soon shall be.
"The Captive"; cited from The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (London: Henry Colburn, 1839) vol. 1, pp. 239-40.
Page 313; "Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine", line 1.
The Monk (1796)
Walter Scott, manuscript note written in 1825; cited from J. G. Lockhart The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1896) p. 81 col. 2.
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Page 313; "Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine", line 11.
The Monk (1796)
