Its effect was more disastrous still upon the second Lord Lytton, who was content to employ an excellent lyrical vein, and a gift of verse satire of the fantastic kind so distinct and fascinating, that it approaches the merit of fantasists in other kinds of the former group, like Beddoes and Darley, to far too great an extent on echoes.
"A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)"
George Saintsbury
Oh, what a world of fantasists.
"Letters from my Windmill"
Alphonse Daudet