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Cristall's longer narrative poems and her verse pastoral sketches tend to be melancholy and inclined towards the uncanny or even horrific. Critics at the time noted some imperfections, but praised her "genius and Warmth of imagination". They include some nature description and laments for dying
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genius. A recent critic discerned in her work "technical virtuosity, masked by claims of metrical irregularity, and a profound questioning of
Romantic values." Another modern commentator has called her book of poems "a remarkable text of women's Romanticism".
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