Surrey is a far superior Metrist.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
But the most remarkable instance of harmony between metrical form and other characteristics, both of form and matter, in the Metrist has yet to be mentioned.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
His verse was not the heroic line of ten syllables, chosen by most of the standard translators, but the long fourteen-syllabled measure, which degenerates easily into sing-song in the hands of a feeble Metrist.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers