 In 1924 Ernest Hemingway wrote into a short story a comparison of G K Chesterton and Walpole , concluding that the former was the better man , the latter a better writer and both were classics . Walpole could be sensitive about his literary reputation and often took adverse criticism badly . When Hilaire Belloc praised P G Wodehouse as the best English writer of their day , Walpole took it amiss , to the amusement of Wodehouse who regarded Belloc 's plaudit as " a gag , to get a rise out of serious @-@ minded authors whom he disliked " . Wodehouse was not a great admirer of Walpole ; his own scrupulous craftsmanship , with drafts polished over and over again , was the opposite of Walpole 's hastily written and seldom @-@ revised prose . He also viewed Walpole 's sensitivity to criticism as absurd . Walpole was not always as oversensitive as Wodehouse supposed . The critic James Agate was a friend despite his regular rude remarks about Walpole 's prose , and when Walpole discovered that Agate had written a spoof of the Herries " Lakeland " style , he made him promise to print it in the next published volume of his diaries . 
 In 1924 Ernest Hemingway wrote into a short story a comparison of G K Chesterton and Walpole , concluding that the former was the better man , the latter a better writer and both <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> classics . Walpole could be sensitive about his literary reputation and often took adverse criticism badly . When Hilaire Belloc praised P G Wodehouse as the best English writer of their day , Walpole took it amiss , to the amusement of Wodehouse <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a>regarded Belloc <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>plaudit as " a gag , to get a rise out of serious @-@ minded authors whom he disliked " . Wodehouse <a href='negative_concord' title='4'><mark>was</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='5'><mark>not</mark></a>a great admirer of Walpole ; his own scrupulous craftsmanship , with drafts polished over and over again , was the opposite of Walpole <a href='null_genetive' title='6'><mark>'s</mark></a>hastily written and seldom @-@ revised prose . He also viewed Walpole <a href='null_genetive' title='7'><mark>'s</mark></a>sensitivity to criticism as absurd . Walpole <a href='negative_concord' title='8'><mark>was</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='9'><mark>not</mark></a>always as oversensitive as Wodehouse supposed . The critic James Agate was a friend despite his regular rude remarks about Walpole <a href='null_genetive' title='10'><mark>'s</mark></a>prose , and when Walpole discovered that Agate <a href='been_done' title='11'><mark>had</mark></a> written a spoof of the Herries " Lakeland " style , he made him promise to print it in the next published volume of his diaries . 
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