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Matthew Gregory Lewis, né à Londres le 9 juillet 1775 et mort en mer le 14 mai 1818, est un romancier et dramaturge anglais, souvent désigné sous le nom du « moine » Lewis, en raison du succès de son roman gothique, Le Moine en 1796. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. juillet 1775 – 14. mai 1818
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Matthew Gregory Lewis: Citations en anglais

“Matthew Lewis [was] the genre's first punk, the Johnny Rotten of the Gothic novel.”

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

Stephen King, in Matthew Lewis The Monk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. vi.
Criticism

“All hail, M. P.! from whose infernal brain
Thin-sheeted phantoms glide, a grisly train;
At whose command "grim women" throng in crowds,
And kings of fire, of water, and of clouds,
With "small gray men," "wild yagers," and what not,
To crown with honour thee and Walter Scott;
Again all hail! if tales like thine may please,
St. Luke alone can vanquish the disease;
Even Satan's self with thee might dread to dwell,
And in thy skull discern a deeper hell.”

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), line 273.
Criticism

“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.”

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Matthew Lewis (writer) livre The Monk

Page 198.
The Monk (1796)

“Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. Yet this is the Book, which young Women are recommended to study.”

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Matthew Lewis (writer) livre The Monk

Page 259.
The Monk (1796)

“Another Cleland see in Lewis rise.
Why sleep the ministers of truth and law?
Has the state no controul, no decent awe,
While each with each in madd'ning orgies vie
Pandars to lust and licens'd blasphemy?
Can senates hear without a kindred rage?
Oh may a poet's lightning blast the page,
Nor with the bolt of Nemesis in vain
Supply the laws, that wake not to restrain!”

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

Thomas James Mathias The Pursuits of Literature, revised edition (1797), Dialogue 4, line 316.
Criticism

“The worms, They crept in, and the worms, They crept out,
And sported his eyes and his temples about,
While the Spectre addressed Imogine.”

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Matthew Lewis (writer) livre The Monk

Page 315; "Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine", line 59.
The Monk (1796)

“Farewel, thou cruel world! – to morrow
No more thy scorn my heart shall tear: –
The grave will shield the child of sorrow,
And heaven will hear the orphan's prayer.”

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

"The Orphan's Prayer", line 29; cited from Titus Strong (ed.) The Common Reader (Greenfield, Mass.: Denio & Phelps, 1819) p. 174.

“Hark! hark! – What mean those yells – those cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks!
He comes! I see his glaring eyes!
Now! now! my dungeon bars he shakes.
Help! Help! He's gone! Oh! fearful woe,
Such screams to hear – such sights to see!
My brain! my brain!”

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

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.

“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.”

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Matthew Lewis (writer) livre The Monk

Page 313; "Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine", line 1.
The Monk (1796)

“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.”

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

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.
Criticism

“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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Matthew Lewis (writer) livre The Monk

Page 313; "Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine", line 11.
The Monk (1796)

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