"One of the admirable achievements of recent criticism has been the devaluation of such poets as Shelley and Tennyson, the restoration of Donne, the apotheosis of Melville, etc.; and these revisions of received rankings obviously involve an exaggeration of the merits of writers especially ???useful??? to us, and conversely, an unfavorable distortion of other writers whose practice seems alien to wh" . . . . .