And, in a sense, such work can be very easily imitated.

A very inferior artist can obtain most of his efforts, and all the external qualities of his style.

One ten-syllabled rhyming couplet, with the whole sense strictly confined within its limits, and allowing only of such variety as follows from changing the pauses, is undoubtedly very much like another.

And accordingly one may read in any collection of British poets innumerable pages of versification which--if you do not look too close--are exactly like Pope.

All poets who have any marked style are more or less imitable; in the present age of revivals, a clever versifier is capable of adopting the manners of his leading contemporaries, or that of any poet from Spenser to Shelley or Keats.