"Or in other poems, the conclusion merely amounts to the explanation of a comparison, as in the _New Cloak Song_, in which on a rusty nail, a torn cloak explains itself as the cloak of Christian love. But where our poetess simply narrates or describes, her art is truly agreeable, only that the lively and closely detailed perceptions, which shoot forth in her soul, often appear obscure from a want of practice in poetic language, and not unfrequently entirely perverted on account of an utter deficiency in logical acuteness. "But since this poetess is endowed with far more than her cotemporaries--_id est_, a peculiar talent to conceive and represent in a lively manner epic details--let us, for the sake of art, gently beg of her to do something for this her talent. She is by far too ignorant of the art of application of terms in lyrical poetry, her delivery is too variable and inaccurate, while botched-up expressions (_Flickwoerter_) and startling instances of incorrectness in language are in her writings every where to be met with. As yet she is a mere amateur and _dilettant_, and her right, to lay before the literary world her poetic inspirations, may very correctly be doubted; and yet she has evidently in her the material for something far better. This she can attain in only one way. She must lay aside all the flaunt and tawdriness of her similes and figures, and then strive to express a lively emotion or an interesting expression, with the simplest words, first in prose--and _then_ in verse. What she has written should then be carefully thought over--every line and word tested, and no inaccuracy in poetical perceptions, no oblique expression, and no metrical defect be suffered to remain." _Authors and Books._