He acknowledges Burns’s emotional intensity but criticizes his lack of intellectual depth.
Robert Burns in the late eighteenth century and says that this is the period from which the personal estimate begins to affect the real estimate.
Burns, according to Arnold, is a better poet in Scottish than in English.
Like Chaucer Arnold does not consider Burns to be a classic.
He says that Burns too lacks the high seriousness desired of poetry.
He compares Burns to Chaucer and finds that Burns‟ manner of presentation is deeper than that of Chaucer.
According to the real estimate Burns lacks the high seriousness of the classics but his poetry nevertheless has truthful substance and style.
