Felicia Hemans,
De Chatillon — Annotation
(1825)
“ Without stripping her language of that richness and poetic beauty so characteristic of her genius, or condescending in a single passage to the mean baldness, so commonly mistaken by many modern writers for the stage as essentially necessary to the truth of dialogue, she has, in this attempt, preserved adherence to reality amid scenes allied with romance—brevity and effect, in situations strongly alluring to amplification ”
