"The characteristics of De Tabley’s poetry are pre-eminently magnificence of style, derived from close study of Milton, sonority, dignity, weight and colour. His passion for detail was both a strength and a weakness: it lent a loving fidelity to his description of natural objects, but it sometimes involved him in a loss of simple effect from over-elaboration of treatment. He was always a student of the classic poets, and drew much of his inspiration directly from them. He was a true and a whole-hearted artist, who, as a brother poet well said, “still climbed the clear cold altitudes of song.” His ambition was always for the heights, a region naturally ice-bound at periods, but always a country of clear atmosphere and bright, vivid outlines."
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Arthur Waugh, "De Tabley, John Byrne Leicester Warren", ', 11th ed., vol. 8 (1911), p. 110
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John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley
(26 April 1835 – 22 November 1895) was an English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on .
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