Let those who think he failed call him a bad poet, and there will be an end of the matter.

There are many styles in art which perfectly competent aesthetic judges cannot endure.

For instance, it would be perfectly legitimate for a strict lover of Gothic to say that one of the monstrous rococo altar-pieces in the Belgian churches with bulbous clouds and oaken sun-rays seven feet long, was, in his opinion, ugly.

But surely it would be perfectly ridiculous for any one to say that it had no form.

A man's actual feelings about it might be better expressed by saying that it had too much.