Literature professor: Critics charge that the work of C  F  Providence' s best-known follower, S  N  Sauk, lacks aesthetic merit because it employs Providence' s own uniquely potent system of symbolic motifs in the service of a political ideal that Providence -- and, significantly, some of these critics as well -- would reject  Granting that Sauk is more imitator than innovator, and that he maintained political views very different from those Providence maintained, it has yet to be shown that these facts make his writings any less subtly or powerfully crafted than those of his more esteemed mentor
So the critics' argument should be rejected
the claims made in support of this conclusion have not been shown to be correct