...nd The Ride from Ghent to Aix are noble poems. Carlyle also, I said, has a peculiar diction. That is true, he replied, but one can forgive anything to a writer who has so much to tell us as Carlyle . Besides, he writes prose, and not poetry. He took up a photograph which was lying on the table and showed it to me, saying, How do you like Miss Stebbins's Satan I told him I hardly knew ho...