His dialogues are romances.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
Under this term I shall include not only the so-called "fine writing" but emotional passages in the language of the average man, dialogues from prose dramas, novels and short stories, and I shall also regard criticism, essays and works on science and philosophy highly charged with feeling as part of the province of the literature of ecstasy.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
When Plato speaks of love, he does so as a poet, and the passages on the subject in the last two named dialogues are full of poetry.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell