Critical Assessment
Ripley built a wide reputation as a critic. Contemporary publications rated him as one of the most important critics of the day, including the Hartford Courant, the Springfield Republican, the New York Evening Gazette, and the Chicago Daily Tribune. Henry Theodore Tuckerman commended Ripley as "a scholar and an aesthetic as well as technical critic: knows public taste and the laws of literature".
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