Bulwer Lytton
W. S. Landor’s depreciation of the “Last Days of Pompeii,” written in 1869:
If aught so damping and so dull were
As these “last days”, of Dandy Bulwer,
And had been cast upon the pluvious
Rockets that issued from Vesuvius,
They would no more have reached Pompeii
Than Rome or Tusculum or Veii.