The Gothictraditionhas verysignificantinfluenceon the English and Americanliterature, and manywriters have inheritedthiswriting tradition in their novels.
Swiss-born English painter Henry Fuseli leads the first wave, which includes Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and Goya a generation inspired by Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante's "Inferno, " Milton's "Paradise Lost" and EnglishGothicnovels.