It takes time to test the worth of art. A superficial appeal may catapult an inferior piece into the limelight and nostalgia may even keep it there. It is not a perfect correlation in either direction, and too much should not be read into it. But, as Wordsworth said to the readers of his Lyrical Ballads:
One request I must make of my reader, which is, that in judging these poems he would decide by his own feelings genuinely, and not by reflection upon what will probably be the judgment of others. How common is it to hear a person say, I myself do not object to this style of composition, or this or that expression, but to such and such classes of people it will appear mean or ludicrous! This mode of criticism, so destructive of all sound unadulterated judgment, is almost universal: let the reader then abide, independently, by his own feelings, and, if he finds himself affected, let him not suffer such conjectures to interfere with his pleasure.
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