 The work as a whole was a parallel to John Keats's "Endymion" written at the same time, and both Keats and Hunt were influenced in their understanding of paganism by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Wallenstein".The poem, along with the collection "Foliage", was attacked by critics.In particular, the "Literary Gazette" claimed that the work fell short of the sublime aspects that were part of what they labelled "true poetry".