Recent criticism has been far more impartial, and almost too much respect has been paid to his attainments, especially in the matter of metre, though Lydgate himself, with offensive lightheartedness, admits his poor craftsmanship.
The open-air enjoyments of the wood, the field, the dance upon the village green, are sung with juvenile lightheartedness.
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Although marred by occasional schmaltz, it generally manages to strike a good balance between pathos and lightheartedness.