pseudo-orientalists

Updated: May 25, 2025

The essays were modeled on Addison; the poetry on the heavy imitators of Pope's heroics; the fiction either on the effusive sentimentalists who followed Richardson, or on the pseudo-Orientalists like Walpole and Lewis, or on the pseudo-mediævalists like Mrs. Roche and Mrs. Radcliffe.

- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6