Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:
I fancied that W’s [Samuel Gray Ward] objection to the verses which pleased me so much was really leveled against ethical verses & not against these particular strains. “There was no progress.” Very well, the moral poet is subjective, & every sentence of his a round poem.
(Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 7:293)
