Critical Response
Allan Cunningham believed that the work was "plentifully seasoned with verse". Henry Crabb Robinson believed the work to be obscure. J. T. Smith was confused by the "expressions," which "are mystical in a very high degree," but thought the poem's designs were "very fine". Alexander Gilchrist remarked that "Turning over the leaves it is sometimes like an increase of light on the retina, so fair and open is the effect of particular pages".
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