They cannot be called didactic or satirical.

The didactic and satirical poems of England are, for the most part, artificial, concise, clear.

These poems are not artificial, clear or concise.

Nor do they represent the men and women of a cultured, intellectual and conventional society, such as the poetry of Dryden and Pope addressed.

The natural man is in them--the crude, dull, badly-baked man--what the later nineteenth century called the real man.