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not the same as saying it cannot be correct

In the opinion of this Curator, however, their tone is wrong: although each Author is capable of quite lyrical language, neither displays what could be called a fictive turn of mind, whereas {The Kinds of Wildernesses}, at least, with its fable-like syntax and didactic style, clearly shares the motivation and 'feel' of the 'Romantic Impluse' sketches.

This tentative attribution seems, however, to be a minority view in current critical opinion. That said, the thoughtful reader will certainly have observed that every notion that today is discredited as the pronouncement of a more naive (or simply ignorant) era was once confidently trumpeted under the banner of 'current critical opinion.'