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Massinger has been more fortunately and more fairly judged than several / of his greater contemporaries. Three critics have done their best by / him: the notes of Coleridge exemplify Coleridge's fragmentary and fine / perceptions; the essay of Leslie Stephen is a piece of formidable / destructive analysis; and the essay of Swinburne is Swinburne's / criticism at its best. None of these, probably, has put Massinger / finally and irrefutably into a place.