It was, as I have said, the central battlefield of two powers in him.

And when _The Ring and the Book_ was finished, the inferior power had for a time the victory.
To sum up then, there are books in the poem where matter of passion and matter of thought are imaginatively wrought together.

There are others where psychological thought and metaphysical reasoning are dominant, but where passionate feeling has also a high place.

There are others where analysis and wit far excel the elements of imaginative emotion; and there are others where every kind of imagination is absent, save that which is consistent throughout and which never fails--the power of creating men and women into distinct individualities.

That is left, but it is a power which is not special to a poet.