An Author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an Anim… - Matthew Gregory Lewis

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An Author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an Animal whom every body is privileged to attack; For though All are not able to write Books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

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Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 14 May 1818) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, translator and Member of Parliament. His novel The Monk, written at the age of 19, is an example of Gothic fiction, and led to his being commonly known as Monk Lewis.

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Native Name: Matthew Lewis

Alternative Names: Monk Lewis • "Monk" Lewis • M. G. Lewis • M.G. Lewis

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A Warrior so bold, and a Virgin so bright
Conversed, as They sat on the green:
They gazed on each other with tender delight;
Alonzo the Brave was the name of the Knight,
The Maid's was the Fair Imogine.

He was a child, and a spoiled child, but a child of high imagination; and so he wasted himself on ghost-stories and German romances.

"Oh! hush these suspicions," Fair Imogine said,
"Offensive to Love and to me!
For if ye be living, or if ye be dead,
I swear by the Virgin, that none in your stead
Shall Husband of Imogine be."

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