In August 1794, The Critical Review published a review of The Mysteries of Udolpho praising it as "the most interesting novel in the English language," but also criticizing the novel's excessive descriptions and anticlimactic ending.[5] Some scholars attribute the review to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, though others dispute this claim.[6]
Modern critics have noted the influence of The Mysteries of Udolpho on the works of many later writers, including Edgar Allan Poe,[7] John Keats,[8] and Henry James.[9]
