Tagore was deemed over-rated by some. Graham Greene doubted that "anyone but Mr. Yeats can still take his poems very seriously." Several prominent Western admirers—including Pound and, to a lesser extent, even Yeats—criticised Tagore's work. Yeats, unimpressed with his English translations, railed against that "Damn Tagore [...] We got out three good books, Sturge Moore and I, and then, because he thought it more important to see and know English than to be a great poet, he brought out sentimental rubbish and wrecked his reputation. Tagore does not know English, no Indian knows English." William Radice, who "Englishhis poems, asked: "What is their place in world literature?" He saw him as "kind of counter-cultur[al", bearing "a new kind of classicism" that would heal the "collapsed romantic confusion and chaos of the 20th entury." The translated Tagore was "almost nonsensical", and subpar English offerings reduced his trans-national appeal: