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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: common run of contemporaneous drawing-room verses, those of
Charles of Orleans are executed with inimitable lightness and
delicacy of touch. They deal with floating and colourless
sentiments, and the writer is never greatly moved, but he
seems always genuine. He makes no attempt to set off thin
conceptions with a multiplicity of phrases. His ballades are
generally thin and scanty of import; for the ballade
presented too large a canvas, and he was preoccupied by
technical requirements. But in the rondel he has put himself
before all competitors by a happy knack and a prevailing
distinction of manner. He is very much more of a duke in his
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