in conversation with GEORGE MACBETH
In The Romantic Agony Marto Praz charted the Influence of de Sade on a wide range of European writers of the nineteenth century. from Byron to D'Annunzio. He discusses which twentieth - century writers he would have included if he had continued the book up to the present day, and defends the method of quotation and analysis he used against the criticism that it shirked moral and aesthetic judgments.