“He has a certain gift for inconsequence and highly etherealised frivolity.”
SCOTSMAN:
“There is no particular plot.”
IRISH LIFE:
“It is a weird medley of Beardsleyesque chatter.”
LAND AND WATER:
“This is the real decadence: Huysmans and his friends were muscular giants, playing at bizarre senility, compared with Mr Firbank.”
LIVERPOOL POST:
“Had Shelley written nothing but Julian and Maddalo and The Cenci, we might have called Mr Firbank a prose Shelley.”